Books written by Ted Nannicelli

A Philosophy of the Screenplay

“Far From Heaven,” “Safe,” and “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story”: Three Screenplays. New York: Grove Press, 2003. Heck, Thomas, Commedia Dell'Arte: A Guide to the Primary and Secondary Sources. New York: Garland, 1988. Henry, Buck.
Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism

Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism, a study in philosophical aesthetics, investigates an idea that underpins the ethical criticism of art but that is rarely acknowledged and poorly understood - namely, that the ethical criticism of art ...
A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value

Ethical understanding and moral evaluation are not achieved solely by reflective reasoning, but by moral intuitions that are informed by social and cultural norms and values and are followed by slower, conscious cognitive processes of ...
A Philosophy of the Screenplay

To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the screenplay: What is a screenplay? Is the screenplay art—more specifically, literature? What kind of a thing is a screenplay?
Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television

This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation.
Appreciating the Art of Television: A Philosophical Perspective

One initial problem is that some artworks, such as literary works, are not constituted by physical materials. Carroll seems willing to bite the bullet here and accept the view that literary works therefore have no medium: “Literature, ...
Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism

Given the instrumental function of assigning moral responsibility that the ethical criticism of art often has, ... Clearly, however, the attribution of the work's ethical perspective to an authorial persona precludes the assignment of ...
Cognitive Media Theory

Ted Nannicelli, Paul Taberham. about the american film institute The American Film Institute ( AFI ) ... becoming a member of AFI today at AFI.com . Robert S. Birchard AFI American Film Institute index 127 Hours about the american film ...