Film, art, and the third culture: a naturalized aesthetics of film

In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which would draw upon and integr...

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Murray Stuart 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2020
Ausgabe:First published in paperback
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Zusammenfassung:In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which would draw upon and integrate the resources of disciplines spanning the natural and social sciences, the arts and the humanities. Murray Smith argues that, with the ever-increasing influence of evolutionary theory and neuroscience, and the pervasive presence of digital technologies, Snow's challenge is more relevant than ever. Working out how the 'scientific' and everyday images of the world 'hang' together is no simple matter. In Film, Art, and the Third Culture, Smith explores this question in relation to the art, technology, and science of film in particular, and to the world of the arts and aesthetic activity more generally. In the first part of his book, Smith explores the general strategies and principles necessary to build a 'third cultural' or naturalized approach to film and art - one that roots itself in an appreciation of scientific knowledge and method
Introduction -- Part I. Building the Third Culture: 1. Aesthetics naturalized ; 2. Triangulating aesthetic experience ; 3. The engine of reason and the pit of naturalism ; 4. Papaya, pomegranates, and green tea -- Part II. Science and Sentiment: 5. Who's afraid of Charles Darwin? ; 6. What difference does it make? ; 7. Empathy, expansionism, and the extended mind ; 10. Feeling prufish -- Conclusion
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-279
Beschreibung:xviii, 294 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780198822752