April 2022

The Paradox of Football

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

This is a book symposium on Steffen Borge’s The Philosophy of Football. It has contributions from William Morgan, Murray Smith and Brian Weatherson with replies from Borge.

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November 2006

The Sound of Sentiment: Popular Music, Film, and Emotion

16:9 filmtidsskrift

Since the 1950s, popular songs have assumed a much more prominent role in the scoring and sound design of feature films. Like their classical precursors, scores based on a collage of popular songs play a vital role in amplifying and inflecting the emotional import of films. But do the differences between instrumental classical music and popular song require different forms of analysis, if we are to capture the means by which they move us?

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23 June 2018

The Kuleshov Fallacy

OUPblog

The face has long been regarded as one of the major weapons in the arsenal of cinema—as a tool of characterization, a source of visual fascination, and not least, as a vehicle of emotional expression…

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23 September 2017

Smile like you mean it

OUPblog

“With a camera you can go into the stomach of a kangaroo,” mused Swedish director Ingmar Bergman…

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26 August 2019

Film as Philosophy: A Response to Diana Neiva

American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal 11.1: Spring/Summer 2019

Let me begin by thanking, on behalf of both Tom Wartenberg and myself, Diana Neiva for her critical commentary and the editors of ASAGE for inviting us to reply…