"What Can Hume Teach Us about Film Evaluation?"
This article identifies three distinct temporal notions in Hume's aesthetics: passing the test of time, repeated viewing of a work, and the personal aging of the critic. It applies these ideas to the evaluation and enjoyment of films. It characterizes positive, negative, and ambivalent film agi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2014]
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Aisthema
Year: 2014, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-22 |
| Further subjects: | B
Evaluation
B Carroll B Film criticism B Hume B Emotion B viewing |
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| Summary: | This article identifies three distinct temporal notions in Hume's aesthetics: passing the test of time, repeated viewing of a work, and the personal aging of the critic. It applies these ideas to the evaluation and enjoyment of films. It characterizes positive, negative, and ambivalent film aging, which are associated with nostalgia, boredom, and comic amusement, respectively, and which bear on our enjoyment, not evaluation, of film. The paper discusses Allen's Zelig, Antonioni's La Notte, Cameron's The Terminator, Lucas's Star Wars, Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Renoir's La Règle du Jeu. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3515 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aisthema
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