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KATHERINE THOMSON JONES, Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies by wilson, george m, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 70, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 393–394, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2012.01531_1.x
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wilson, georgem. Seeing Fictions in Film:The Epistemology of Movies. Oxford University Press, 2011,viii + 220 pp., $45.00 cloth.
There is no doubt that this is a difficult book. The question is whether Seeing Fictions in Film has to be so difficult and whether working through its arguments is worth the reader's effort. Happily, the answer to these questions is a definitive yes. In its complexity and subtlety, the book reveals just what is at stake in the recent debate about cinematic narration. The reader is informed of all the points of confusion and misdirection in this debate. She is then asked to focus on what is really important and consider a controversial but richly suggestive view about the imaginative grounds and distinctive means of cinematic narration. Many of the components of this view are familiar from Wilson's earlier work, particularly from a series of fascinating articles appearing between 1997 and 2007. But the book‐length treatment serves to reveal the continuity of Wilson's thinking while providing greater stress, elaboration, context, and new responses to recent objections.
