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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Noël Carroll |
| ISBN: | 0198711298 9780198711292 0198742371 9780198742371 |
| OCLC Number: | 37195011 |
| Description: | xii, 425 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Philosophical resistance to mass art : The majority tradition. Introduction -- The massification argument -- The passivity argument -- The formula argument -- The freedom argument, the susceptibility argument and the conditioning argument -- Concluding remarks : A diagnosis of philosophy's resistance to mass art -- pt. 2. Philosophical celebrations of mass art : The minority tradition. Introduction -- Walter Benjamin and the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Marshall McLuhan and the electronic future -- Concluding remarks -- pt. 3. The nature of mass art. Introduction -- The elimination theory of mass art -- Defining mass art -- The ontology of mass art -- David Novitz's theory of mass art -- John Fiske's rejection of the concept of mass art -- Concluding remarks -- pt. 4. Mass art and the emotions. Introduction -- Plato versus the cognitive theory of the emotions -- Criterial prefocusing : An alternative to identification -- Ramifications for research -- Fiction and the emotions -- But what about mass art? -- Concluding remarks -- pt. 5. Mass art and morality. Introduction -- Consequentialism, propositionalism, and indentificationism -- Clarificationism -- Simulation, or back to identification? -- Concluding remarks -- pt. 6. Mass art and ideology. Introduction -- A theory of ideology -- Ideology and rhetoric -- Concluding remarks. |
| Responsibility: | Noël Carroll. |
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