{"product_id":"fiction-and-imagination-in-early-mario-slugan-9781350194816","title":"Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema: A Philosophical Approach to Film History","description":"When watching the latest instalment of \u003ci\u003eBatman\u003c\/i\u003e, it is perfectly normal to say that we see Batman fighting Bane or that we see Bruce Wayne making love to Miranda Tate. We would not say that we see Christian Bale dressed up as Batman going through the motions of punching Tom Hardy dressed up us Bane. Nor do we say that we see Christian Bale pretending to be Bruce Wayne making love with Marion Cotillard, who is playacting the role Miranda Tate. But if we look at the history of cinema and consider contemporary reviews from the early days of the medium, we see that people thought precisely in this way about early film. They spoke of film as no more than documentary recordings of actors performing on set. \u003cbr\u003eIn an innovative combination of philosophical aesthetics and new cinema history, Mario Slugan investigates how our default imaginative engagement with film changed over the first two decades of cinema. It addresses not only the importance of imagination for the understanding of early cinema but also contributes to our understanding of what it means for a representational medium to produce fictions. Specifically, Slugan argues that cinema provides a better model for understanding fiction than literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mario Slugan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350194816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350194816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d","brand":"Mario Slugan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942959644927,"sku":"9781350194816","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4bdaadb3-dcb4-458b-b95f-c87344336e98.jpg?v=1681495396","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fiction-and-imagination-in-early-mario-slugan-9781350194816","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}