Noël Carroll

This article is about the American philosopher. For the Irish runner, see Noel Carroll (athlete).
Noël Carroll in 2005

Noël Carroll (born 1947) is an American philosopher considered to be one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of art. Although Carroll is best known for his work in the philosophy of film, he has also published journalism, works on philosophy of art generally, theory of media, and also philosophy of history.

As of 2012, he is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. He holds PhDs in both cinema studies and philosophy. As a journalist, earlier in his career he published a number of articles in the Chicago Reader, Artforum, In These Times, Dance Magazine, Soho Weekly News and The Village Voice. He is also the author of five documentaries.

Perhaps his most popular and influential book is The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart (1990), an examination of the aesthetics of horror fiction (in novels, stories, radio and film). As noted in the book's introduction, Carroll wrote Paradoxes of the Heart in part to convince his parents that his lifelong fascination with horror fiction was not a waste of time. Another important book by Carroll is Mystifying Movies (1988), a critique of the ideas of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and the semiotics of Roland Barthes, which has been credited with inspiring a shift away from what Carroll describes as the "Psycho-Semiotic Marxism" that had dominated film studies and film theory in American universities since the 1970s.[1]

Works

Carroll is the author of more than one hundred articles and other works:

Books

Monographs

Edited volumes

Academic articles

Magazine articles

Newspaper articles

Screen writing

Education

Positions

See also

References

  1. Plantinga, Carl (2002). "Cognitive Film Theory: An Insider’s Appraisal" Cinémas: Journal of Film Studies, vol. 12, n° 2, 2002, p. 15-37.

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