Ted Nannicelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 175686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ted Nannicelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ted |
| FAMILY NAME | Nannicelli |
| SIGNATURE | NANNICELLI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5909-5823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Art, Ethics, and the Relativism of Distance
To what extent, and on what grounds, can we ethically evaluate art from a generative context that is at some significant distance from our present reception context-at enough distance, at least, so that the two contexts differ, in important ways, in aspects of their moral outlooks? This paper has four aims. The modest task of the paper is to show that this question is much more difficult than has been recognised. The somewhat more ambitious goal …
In Defence of the Production-Oriented Approach to the Ethical Criticism of Art: A Reply to James Harold
As James Harold notes in his generous and thoughtful commentary on Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism (ACEC) (2020), there is much on which we agree, including some of the points he raises in the commentary. In what follows, I will note these points of agreement and address Harold’s objections in the order he raises them. Harold observes that the biggest point of difference between us concerns the question of where to locate the focus of the…
How to Do (Im)moral Things with Artworks: Commentary on James Harold’s Dangerous Art
James Harold’s Dangerous Art (2020) is a provocative and stimulating contribution to contemporary debates about the relationship between art and ethics—one that, I am sure, will redirect philosophical discussion in productive and important ways. In my view, the first half of Harold’s book will prove especially useful in advancing stalled debates by shifting our focus from the ethical features of artworks themselves to how those works affect us an…
Aesthetic Evaluation and Film
Early in the introductory chapter of Aesthetic Evaluation and Film, Andrew Klevan refers to Carl Plantinga’s article ‘Film Theory and Aesthetics: Notes on a Schism’, noting that, from his position within the discipline of film studies, the ‘schism’ seems as wide as ever (3–4).1 This claim is likely to sound odd to aestheticians who have followed the rapid development of the philosophy of film—often in collaboration with ‘cognitivists’ in film stu…
Aesthetics and the Limits of the Extended Mind
Journal Article Aesthetics and the Limits of the Extended Mind Get access Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli University of Queensland [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-5823 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 59, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 81–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayy048 Published: 23 January 2019
Denial: David Irving, and the Complexities of Representing a Holocaust Denier
Mick Jackson’s 2016 film Denial, based on the libel case brought against Deborah Lipstatd’s publisher by David Irving, was discussed as a panel event at the 13th International Association of Genocide Scholars conference, held at the University of Queensland on the evening of July 12, 2017. Dr. Kirril Shields presented on the difficulty of representation, addressing the film’s portrayal of David Irving. Dr. Ted Nannicelli followed with a discussio…
Animals, Ethics, and the Art World
This paper argues that debates over art exhibitions that make use of live animals, such as the Guggenheim Museum's 2017 Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, are reflective of a schism between two general approaches to the ethico-political criticism of art. One of these approaches, the interpretation-oriented approach, is dominant in the art world and its adjacent institutions. The other, the production-oriented approach, is tacitly ado…
In defence of the objectivity of evaluative television criticism
The prevailing view in television studies is that evaluative criticism involves the expression of wholly subjective tastes or attitudes. Moreover, the idea that evaluative judgements could be in any way objective or truthful tends to be greeted with deep scepticism and suspicion. This essay argues that the prevailing view - 'expressivism' - is unsatisfactory and unsustainable, and it advances a moderate version of objectivism
The Naturalist Theatrical Aesthetic of Bottle Episodes
This article identifies and describes a special sort of television episode known as a 'bottle episode'. After characterising the typical features of bottle episodes, the article proceeds to investigate the following question: What narrative strategies and stylistic techniques do practitioners adopt to cope with the practical constraints imposed by bottle episodes? The answer, advanced and defended in the later portion of the article, is that a ty…
Ontology, intentionality and television aesthetics
This essay suggests that television aesthetics, as a research project, would benefit from attending to relevant theoretical debates in philosophical aesthetics. One reason for this is that assumptions about the ontology of television artworks are already embedded in our critical practices. We ought to be more aware of what these assumptions are and state them more explicitly. Moreover, I argue, for debates in television aesthetics to get off the …
Hollywood Incoherent
Journal Article Hollywood Incoherent Get access Hollywood Incoherent todd berliner university of texas press 2010. 276 pp. £37 (hbk). Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli University of Waikato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 52, Issue 3, 5 July 2012, Pages 317–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayr054 Published: 18 January 2012
Instructions and Artworks: Musical Scores, Theatrical Scripts, Architectural Plans, and Screenplays
Journal Article Instructions and Artworks: Musical Scores, Theatrical Scripts, Architectural Plans, and Screenplays Get access Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli University of Waikato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 51, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 399–414, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayr029 Published: 01 October 2011
From Representation to Evocation: Tracing a Progression in Jean Rouch'sLes magiciens de Wanzerbé, Les maîtres fous, andJaguar
In this article, I describe and analyze the ways in which the Other is represented in three of Jean Rouch's earlier films. After briefly outlining Rouch's relationship to the cinema of Robert Flaherty, I look closely at Les magiciens de Wanzerbé [1948], Les maîtres fous [], and Jaguar [], and argue that these films exhibit a progression from a conventional, colonialist mode of documentary practice to a more open, polyvocal, collaborative form. I …
Aesthetics and the Limits of the Extended Mind
Journal Article Aesthetics and the Limits of the Extended Mind Get access Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli University of Queensland [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-5823 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 59, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 81–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayy048 Published: 23 January 2019
Art, Ethics, and the Relativism of Distance
To what extent, and on what grounds, can we ethically evaluate art from a generative context that is at some significant distance from our present reception context-at enough distance, at least, so that the two contexts differ, in important ways, in aspects of their moral outlooks? This paper has four aims. The modest task of the paper is to show that this question is much more difficult than has been recognised. The somewhat more ambitious goal …
Instructions and Artworks: Musical Scores, Theatrical Scripts, Architectural Plans, and Screenplays
Journal Article Instructions and Artworks: Musical Scores, Theatrical Scripts, Architectural Plans, and Screenplays Get access Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli University of Waikato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 51, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 399–414, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayr029 Published: 01 October 2011
How to Do (Im)moral Things with Artworks: Commentary on James Harold’s Dangerous Art
James Harold’s Dangerous Art (2020) is a provocative and stimulating contribution to contemporary debates about the relationship between art and ethics—one that, I am sure, will redirect philosophical discussion in productive and important ways. In my view, the first half of Harold’s book will prove especially useful in advancing stalled debates by shifting our focus from the ethical features of artworks themselves to how those works affect us an…
Animals, Ethics, and the Art World
This paper argues that debates over art exhibitions that make use of live animals, such as the Guggenheim Museum's 2017 Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, are reflective of a schism between two general approaches to the ethico-political criticism of art. One of these approaches, the interpretation-oriented approach, is dominant in the art world and its adjacent institutions. The other, the production-oriented approach, is tacitly ado…
In defence of the objectivity of evaluative television criticism
The prevailing view in television studies is that evaluative criticism involves the expression of wholly subjective tastes or attitudes. Moreover, the idea that evaluative judgements could be in any way objective or truthful tends to be greeted with deep scepticism and suspicion. This essay argues that the prevailing view - 'expressivism' - is unsatisfactory and unsustainable, and it advances a moderate version of objectivism
The Naturalist Theatrical Aesthetic of Bottle Episodes
This article identifies and describes a special sort of television episode known as a 'bottle episode'. After characterising the typical features of bottle episodes, the article proceeds to investigate the following question: What narrative strategies and stylistic techniques do practitioners adopt to cope with the practical constraints imposed by bottle episodes? The answer, advanced and defended in the later portion of the article, is that a ty…
Ontology, intentionality and television aesthetics
This essay suggests that television aesthetics, as a research project, would benefit from attending to relevant theoretical debates in philosophical aesthetics. One reason for this is that assumptions about the ontology of television artworks are already embedded in our critical practices. We ought to be more aware of what these assumptions are and state them more explicitly. Moreover, I argue, for debates in television aesthetics to get off the …
From Representation to Evocation: Tracing a Progression in Jean Rouch'sLes magiciens de Wanzerbé, Les maîtres fous, andJaguar
In this article, I describe and analyze the ways in which the Other is represented in three of Jean Rouch's earlier films. After briefly outlining Rouch's relationship to the cinema of Robert Flaherty, I look closely at Les magiciens de Wanzerbé [1948], Les maîtres fous [], and Jaguar [], and argue that these films exhibit a progression from a conventional, colonialist mode of documentary practice to a more open, polyvocal, collaborative form. I …
From Representation to Evocation: Tracing a Progression in Jean Rouch'sLes magiciens de Wanzerbé, Les maîtres fous, andJaguar
In this article, I describe and analyze the ways in which the Other is represented in three of Jean Rouch's earlier films. After briefly outlining Rouch's relationship to the cinema of Robert Flaherty, I look closely at Les magiciens de Wanzerbé [1948], Les maîtres fous [], and Jaguar [], and argue that these films exhibit a progression from a conventional, colonialist mode of documentary practice to a more open, polyvocal, collaborative form. I …
Instructions and Artworks: Musical Scores, Theatrical Scripts, Architectural Plans, and Screenplays
Journal Article Instructions and Artworks: Musical Scores, Theatrical Scripts, Architectural Plans, and Screenplays Get access Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli University of Waikato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 51, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 399–414, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayr029 Published: 01 October 2011
Ontology, intentionality and television aesthetics
This essay suggests that television aesthetics, as a research project, would benefit from attending to relevant theoretical debates in philosophical aesthetics. One reason for this is that assumptions about the ontology of television artworks are already embedded in our critical practices. We ought to be more aware of what these assumptions are and state them more explicitly. Moreover, I argue, for debates in television aesthetics to get off the …
Hollywood Incoherent
Journal Article Hollywood Incoherent Get access Hollywood Incoherent todd berliner university of texas press 2010. 276 pp. £37 (hbk). Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli University of Waikato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 52, Issue 3, 5 July 2012, Pages 317–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayr054 Published: 18 January 2012
The Naturalist Theatrical Aesthetic of Bottle Episodes
This article identifies and describes a special sort of television episode known as a 'bottle episode'. After characterising the typical features of bottle episodes, the article proceeds to investigate the following question: What narrative strategies and stylistic techniques do practitioners adopt to cope with the practical constraints imposed by bottle episodes? The answer, advanced and defended in the later portion of the article, is that a ty…
In defence of the objectivity of evaluative television criticism
The prevailing view in television studies is that evaluative criticism involves the expression of wholly subjective tastes or attitudes. Moreover, the idea that evaluative judgements could be in any way objective or truthful tends to be greeted with deep scepticism and suspicion. This essay argues that the prevailing view - 'expressivism' - is unsatisfactory and unsustainable, and it advances a moderate version of objectivism
Denial: David Irving, and the Complexities of Representing a Holocaust Denier
Mick Jackson’s 2016 film Denial, based on the libel case brought against Deborah Lipstatd’s publisher by David Irving, was discussed as a panel event at the 13th International Association of Genocide Scholars conference, held at the University of Queensland on the evening of July 12, 2017. Dr. Kirril Shields presented on the difficulty of representation, addressing the film’s portrayal of David Irving. Dr. Ted Nannicelli followed with a discussio…
Animals, Ethics, and the Art World
This paper argues that debates over art exhibitions that make use of live animals, such as the Guggenheim Museum's 2017 Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, are reflective of a schism between two general approaches to the ethico-political criticism of art. One of these approaches, the interpretation-oriented approach, is dominant in the art world and its adjacent institutions. The other, the production-oriented approach, is tacitly ado…
Aesthetic Evaluation and Film
Early in the introductory chapter of Aesthetic Evaluation and Film, Andrew Klevan refers to Carl Plantinga’s article ‘Film Theory and Aesthetics: Notes on a Schism’, noting that, from his position within the discipline of film studies, the ‘schism’ seems as wide as ever (3–4).1 This claim is likely to sound odd to aestheticians who have followed the rapid development of the philosophy of film—often in collaboration with ‘cognitivists’ in film stu…
Aesthetics and the Limits of the Extended Mind
Journal Article Aesthetics and the Limits of the Extended Mind Get access Ted Nannicelli Ted Nannicelli University of Queensland [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-5823 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 59, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 81–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayy048 Published: 23 January 2019
In Defence of the Production-Oriented Approach to the Ethical Criticism of Art: A Reply to James Harold
As James Harold notes in his generous and thoughtful commentary on Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism (ACEC) (2020), there is much on which we agree, including some of the points he raises in the commentary. In what follows, I will note these points of agreement and address Harold’s objections in the order he raises them. Harold observes that the biggest point of difference between us concerns the question of where to locate the focus of the…
How to Do (Im)moral Things with Artworks: Commentary on James Harold’s Dangerous Art
James Harold’s Dangerous Art (2020) is a provocative and stimulating contribution to contemporary debates about the relationship between art and ethics—one that, I am sure, will redirect philosophical discussion in productive and important ways. In my view, the first half of Harold’s book will prove especially useful in advancing stalled debates by shifting our focus from the ethical features of artworks themselves to how those works affect us an…
Art, Ethics, and the Relativism of Distance
To what extent, and on what grounds, can we ethically evaluate art from a generative context that is at some significant distance from our present reception context-at enough distance, at least, so that the two contexts differ, in important ways, in aspects of their moral outlooks? This paper has four aims. The modest task of the paper is to show that this question is much more difficult than has been recognised. The somewhat more ambitious goal …
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