Recent accounts of pretense have been underdescribed in a number of ways. In this paper,
we present a much more explicit cognitive account of pretense. We begin by describing a …

The cinema as a cultural institution has been studied by academic researchers in the arts
and humanities. At present, cultural media studies are the home to the aesthetics and critical …

Narratives are everywhere--and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is
defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against …

This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an
established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the …

The Philosophy of Philosophy The Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy The Philosophy
of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science …

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this
multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary …

People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly,
we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves …

Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the
perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We …

What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film
theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their …

Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book
offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of …