Ebook: Film worlds: a philosophical aesthetics of cinema

Introduction -- Films and worlds. Worlds within worlds: fictions, narrative, and aesthetic enclosure -- Worlds of symbols. The framework of worlds: symbolization, meaning, and art -- Filmmaking as symbolic transformation -- Ways of cinematic world-making -- Representation, exemplification and reflexivity: an alternative approach to the symbolic dimension of cinematic art -- Worlds of feeling. Forms of feeling: mapping affect and emotions in films -- Cineaesthetic world-feeling and immersion -- Worlds of truth. Toward an existential hermeneutics of film worlds.;"Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the continental and analytic traditions, as well as modern and contemporary film theory, it weaves together multiple strands of thought and analysis to provide new understandings of filmic representation, fictionality, expression, self-reflexivity, style, and the full range of cinema's affective and symbolic dimensions"--Page [4] of cover.