Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Volume 0)

Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Volume 0) by Currie, Gregory. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521057783.

This is a book about the nature of film: about the nature of moving images, about the viewers relation to film, and about the kinds of narrative that film is capable of presenting. It represents a very decisive break with the semiotic and psychoanalytic theories of film that have dominated discussion over the past twenty years. Professor Currie provides a general theory of pictorial narration and its interpretation in both pictorial and linguistic media, and concludes with an analysis of some ways in which film narrative and literary narrative differ.