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Item Open Access Richard Rorty on Kant: Remarks upon Pages 148-155 of Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979)(1980) Cameron, Evan Wm.A commentary upon Richard Rorty's misconstrual within The Mirror of Nature (1979) of the nature, intent and achievement of Kant's programme of philosophical enquiry, confirming that philosophers would do well to avoid the deconstructive method of 'conversation' that Rorty's work exemplifies.Item Open Access Review of The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World, edited by John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska (London: Wallflower Press, 2006), x + 175 pages(2008) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World, edited by John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska (London: Wallflower Press, 2006), x + 175, published in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Vol 13, No. 3 (Spring, 2008).]Item Open Access Review of Eric Barnouw's Documentary: a History of the Non-Fiction Film (Oxford University Press, New York, 1974), 332 pages(1974) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of Eric Barnouw's Documentary: a History of the Non-Fiction Film (Oxford University Press, New York, 1974), 332 pages, published under the title 'Barnouw on Documentary' on pages 1 and 7 of the University Film Studies Center Newsletter, June, 1975, Vol. 5, No. 5.Item Open Access Review of Yon Barna's Eisenstein (Indiana University Press, 1973), 287 pages(1974) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of Yon Barna's Eisenstein published under the title "Barna's Eisenstein" on pages 1, 4 and 5 of the University Film Study Center Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 5 (June, 1974) with a reply by EWC to a response to the review by Professor Seth Feldman appended.Item Open Access Review of William Rothman's Documentary Film Classics (New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xv + 2018 pages(2001) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of William Rothman's Documentary Film Classics (New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xv + 2018 pages, published on pages 215-217 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Spring, 2001). See https://www.jstor.org/stable/432227 (as of 03 April 2020).Item Open Access Review of Mary Carruthers' The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric and the Making of Images, 400-1200 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xviii + 399 pages)(Film-Philosophy, 1999) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of Mary Carruther's The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric and the Making of Images, 400-1200 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xviii + 399 pages). The response to the review by Mary Carruthers as requested by the journal that appeared in Vol. 3, No. 38 (September, 1999) is appended.Item Open Access A Note on the Proper Study of Film: A Response to C. B. Hunt(1980) Cameron, Evan Wm.A cautionary response, published within the Newsletter of the American Film Institute in November-December 1980, to suggestions to the contrary about the teaching of film and the administration of those doing it made within a previous issue by Dr. C. B. Hunt, Jr., Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at Southern Illinois University.Item Open Access Review of The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism , by Steven Price (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), xvi + 209 pages.(2012) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism by Steven Price (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), xvi + 209 pages.Item Open Access Review of Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, edited by David Bordwell and Noël Carroll (Madison, Wisconsin: the University of Wisconsin Press, 1996)(1997) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, edited by David Bordwell and Noël Carroll (Madison, Wisconsin: the University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), xviii & 564 pages, $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper, published on pages 492-494 of Philosophy & Literature, Vol. 21, No. 2 (October, 1997).Item Open Access The Virtues and Limitations of Cookbooks: A Review of Manuals (Hastings House, 1976) by Daniel Arijon and Dwight V. Swain(1978) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of Daniel Arijon's Grammar of the Film Language and Dwight V. Swain's Film Scripting: A Practical Manual (New York, New York: Hastings House, 1976).Item Open Access Review of Noël Carroll's "Problems of Classical Film Theory" (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988)(The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1989) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of Noël Carroll's Problems of Classical Film Theory (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988), x + 268 pages, published on pages 85 and 86 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47, No. 1 (Winter, 1989).Item Open Access Review of Peter Loizos's Innovation in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self-consciousness, 1955-85 (Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1993; 224 pages)(History of European Ideas, 1995-07) Cameron, Evan Wm.A review of Peter Loizos's Innovation in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self-consciousness, 1955-85 (Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1993; 224 pages) published on pages 579-581 of the journal History of European Ideas 21, No. 4 (July, 1995).Item Open Access Filmmaking, Teaching and the Colonial Experience: An Immigrant's Account from "English" Canada of a Story of American Success(1992) Cameron, Evan Wm.A caustic commentary on the nature, scope and limits of filmmaking and the teaching of it within Canada provoked by a supposedly informed review of the former that appeared within the Globe & Mail of Toronto ("Canada's National Newspaper") in December of 1991.Item Open Access Nelson Goodman's 'Theory of Symbols': an Exposition and Critique(1985) Cameron, Evan Wm.Notes in outline form for a presentation on 13 February 1985 to the 'Media, Mind and Society' seminar of David R. Olson, Co-Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the University of Toronto, on the 'Theory of Symbols' of Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art [1968] and Ways of Worldmaking [1978].Item Open Access KING KONG, Carroll and Currie: Misconstruing Monstrously How We See Things by Means of Movies(1998) Cameron, Evan Wm.Two confusions have vitiated recent philosophical discussions about filmmaking: the presumption of Nöel Carroll that discrimination entails essentialism and the presumption of both Carroll and Gregory Currie that we cannot be seeing what we commonly speak of seeing when seeing 'fictional things' things by means of movies, monsters like King Kong in particular, for our responses differ from what they would have been had we been in the presence of the things that we are encountering. Fortunately, neither of the confusions need bother us nor need we persist with the authors in misdescribing how we encounter things seen by means of movies.Item Open Access Bypassing Elder - Sitney on Elder on Brakhage(2000) Cameron, Evan Wm.P. Adams Sitney, in his otherwise estimable review of Bruce Elder's The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Charles Olson, disregards the author's goal of demonstrating how Brakhage's achievement can be understood only from within the broad historical context of artistical and philosophical works by others that informed the modernist tradition, including Elder's own. To discount the references and extended commentaries that constitute the core of Elder's argument about the texts and films by himself and others that must be understood to understand better the works of Brakhage, even if unknown to Brakhage himself, is to misconstrue the aim and content of Elder's book and to mislead readers about the nature of his achievement within the book and elsewhere. The aim of this note is to assist readers to ponder what Elder wrote rather than mismeasuring it against whatever phantom texts Sitney would have preferred to encounter.