Movement as meaning in experimental cinema : the musical poetry of motion pictures revisited / Daniel Barnett.
This title offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval,...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. |
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| Summary: | This title offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition, and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. |
| ISBN: | 9781501329821 1501329820 9781501329838 1501329839 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |