http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/lessons-of-darkness Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:20:04 -0400 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:20:04 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/670/lessons-of-darkness-in-the-context-of-carrolls-erotetic-narrative By Brian Richards - In his essay, “An Aesthetic Reality,” Andre Bazin writes, “Let us agree, by and large, that film sought to give the spectator as perfect an illusion of reality as possible within the limits of logical demands of cinematographic narrative” (Bazin, 26). Noel Carroll does not “agree, by and large” with Bazin’s realism-based (or medium essential) proposal, nor is he satisfied with ascribing the power of film to Wilson’s semiotics or Langer’s dream-medium theories. Instead, Carroll attributes the central source of cinematic power to its use of an... Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/670/lessons-of-darkness-in-the-context-of-carrolls-erotetic-narrative