Books written by Noel Carroll

Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies

In The Piano , as well , sexual connectedness is represented as a tactile experience , rather than a verbal or even a visual one - Ada doesn't speak and George doesn't read , and in both films , longing and its frustration is ...
Exclusion Zone

The aircraft carrier George Washington December 29th, 11:00 a.m. Lieutenant Hugh Tam had a moment of euphoria upon waking up in the hospital ward of the George Washington. Not about his wounds, which hurt even when he held himself ...
Theories of Art Today

See my forthcoming Parodies as Politics , which discusses feminist theories of humor in comparison to traditional theories written by Plato , Aristotle , Hobbes , Hutcheson , Kant , Schopenhauer , Kierkegaard , Bergson , Freud , and ...
Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping

In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films.
On Criticism

This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and critic Noel Carroll, who argues that that the proper task of the critic is not simply to describe, or to uncover hidden meanings or agendas, but instead to determine what is of value in art.
Humour: A Very Short Introduction

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Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

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Philosophy in The Twilight Zone

This collection of original essays by leading philosophical scholars focuses on particular episodes or examines broader philosophical themes raised in the series.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature

and irrevocable deed of unhinged revenge; we can see that in what we call the act itself, but we understand it as the act it is only by understanding the longer-form progression of which it is the hideous culmination.
Art in Three Dimensions

This is a collection of essays by one of the most eminent figures in philosophy of art.
Engaging the Moving Image

Noël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television—what Carroll calls “moving images.” The essays discuss topics in philosophy, film ...
Narrative, Emotion, and Insight

"A collection of essays, written for this volume by leaders in the field, that study the emotional and cognitive significance of narrative and its implications for aesthetics and the philosophy of art"--Provided by publisher.
Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies

Music functions narratively, by any intuitive assessment, in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, particularly at junctures when a scrap of Lehar's “Merry Widow” waltz intrudes itself, suggesting the “Merry Widow Murders” that are central to ...
Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology

The volume's eight sections, each introduced by the editors, cover topics such as Film as art The nature of film Documentary cinema Narration and emotion in film Film criticism Film's relation to knowledge and morality Whether addressing ...
The Exclusion Zone

The Exclusion Zone
The Exclusion Zone

An unlikely combination of events combine to provide the backdrop for an attack upon the Queen of England: a wayward satellite ending its life in a spectacular way, a young couple sailing too close to an active volcano, terrorists hiding ...
A Long Reach Back

Inexplicably, his body fled to a weightlessness he had not felt since the long voyage here. His breathing became labored, as if the air was suddenly too thick for his lungs to handle. His eyes were affected as well, they were reporting, ...
The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart

Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature

Make-believe engagement, in other words, is not a necessary condition of our interaction with fictions. Moreover, if this is the case, then it does not seem that children's (or even adults') games of make-believe can provide us with a ...
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

This work aims to introduce readers to the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this field of inquiry.