Name Noel Carroll | Role Journalist | |
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Education University of Illinois at Chicago (1983), New York University (1976) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The Philosophy of Horror, A Philosophy of Mass Art, The Philosophy of Motion, Theorizing the Moving Image, Mystifying Movies Similar People David Bordwell, Arthur Danto, Sally Banes |
An interview with no l carroll on arthur danto and art criticism
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.
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- An interview with no l carroll on arthur danto and art criticism
- No l carroll the paradox of horror
- Works
- Monographs
- Edited volumes
- Academic articles
- Magazine articles
- Newspaper articles
- Screen writing
- Education
- Positions
- References

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.

No l carroll the paradox of horror
Works
Carroll is the author of more than one hundred articles and other works:
Monographs
