Theorizing the Moving Image

Theorizing the Moving Image brings together a selection of essays written by one of the leading critics of film over the past two decades. In this volume Nol Carroll examines theoretical aspects of film and television through penetrating analyses of such genres as soap opera documentary and comedy and such topics as sight gags film metaphor point-of-view editing and movie music. Throughout individual films are considered in depth. Carroll''s essays moreover represent the cognitivist turn in film studies containing in-depth criticism of existing approaches to film theory and heralding a new approach to film theory.