Part III - Interpretation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
Summary
In Part I argued that the depictive content of film is given to us courtesy of our capacities for recognizing the objects depicted. The process of recognizing depictive content hardly counts as interpretive. But there is more to understanding a film than merely recognizing its depictive content. That is where interpretation starts. In Chapter 8, I develop a theory of interpretation for literary and filmic narratives. But there are important differences between the kinds of narratives available to film and to literature. In Chapter 9, I illustrate this diversity through the example of narrative unreliability.
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- Image and MindFilm, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, pp. 223 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995