September 2006

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Noel Carroll, Temple University

"On the Ties that Bind"

Respondent: Paul Messaris, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

6:30pm to 8pm

Room 307 at the Temple University Center City Campus

 

Professor Carroll's talk is an exploration of some of the emotional relations between audiences and the characters in popular fictions. Some relations to be examined are identification, simulation, sympathy, antipathy, and mirror reflexes.

Noel Carroll is Andrew W. Mellon Term Professor in the Humanities at Temple University. His books include The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (Routledge, 1990); Interpreting the Moving Image (Routledge, 1998); and A Philosophy of Mass Art (Routledge, 1999). He has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Embodied Mind: Comic Intelligence and Concrete Operations in Buster Keaton's "The General" and recently finished co-editing an anthology with Jinhee Choi called The Philosophy of Film for Blackwell.

Paul Messaris is Lev Kuleshov Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Messaris teaches and does research in the area of visual communication. His publications have dealt with viewers' interpretations of images, viewers' responses to the formal devices of advertising and other types of visual persuasion or manipulation, and ways in which the media have been affected by the advent of computers. His most recent research deals with digital special effects in fiction film, and he is working on a book about viewers' reactions to the style and content of movies.