Moving Pictures

In Lydia Goehr & Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), A Companion to Arthur C. Danto. Hoboken: Wiley. pp. 216–222 (2021)
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Arthur Danto's philosophy of film is contained almost entirely in a single, rich, but unruly essay, “Moving Pictures”, chock full of examples but digressive to the point of distraction. Danto's method is to address senses in which pictures generally may be said to be “moving” and to determine in which sense, indicative only of it, might film be said to be so. Danto dismisses out‐of‐hand communal viewing as a basis for understanding film on a purely theatrical model. Danto's discussion of photography as a basis for film begins with a brief contrast with painting, the art that provides the hub of his general account of the ontology of art. The conclusion of “Moving Pictures” suggests that it is not so much making plain the reflexive nature of filmic representation that matters, but rather the exploitation of that structure in terms of the filmmaker's sensibility.

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