A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

Looking at film through its communication properties rather than its social or political implications, this work draws on the tenets of James J. Gibson's ecological theory of visual perception and offers a new understanding of how moving images are seen and understood.

"This book is a selection of essays by Noël Carroll at the intersection of film and TV and major divisions of philosophy including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics"--

Since the rise of cinema in 1896, moving images have been of increased importance in the construction of culture and society and for the ways in which we interact with reality and with each other. With the coming of television on a global mass scale in the 1960's and the birth of computers and the information society in the 1980's, we are right now in an expanding and changing culture highly influenced by visual media.