Article published In:
Pragmatics and SocietyVol. 4:1 (2013) ► pp.105–111
The logic of failures of the cinematic imagination
Two case studies – and a logical puzzle and solution in just one
This piece is intended to explicate – by providing a precising definition of – the common cinematic figure which I term “the failure of the cinematic imagination,” while presenting a logical puzzle and its solution within a simple Gricean framework.
Keywords: visual depiction, Gricean framework, film, implicatures
