Article: Reading in the dark: cognitivism, Film Theory, and radical interpretation.

The growing cachet of film studies has been accompanied, as in all emerging disciplines, by a certain amount of institutional anxiety. As Noel Carroll points out in his book Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory (1988), among the discipline's earliest efforts to allay this anxiety was the attempt to legitimize film's status as an art form. "Moreover," Carroll writes, "such a mission brought film theory in contact with philosophy almost immediately, since proving that film is an art requires making philosophical assumptions about such things as the nature of art and the conditions a medium must meet in order to be regarded as an autonomous art form" (4). These ...

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