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Associate Professor Ted Nannicelli

Deputy Head
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Arts
Affiliate of Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
+61 7 336 54748
t.nannicelli@uq.edu.au
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Publications

Books (3)
Book Chapters (23)
Journal Articles (35)

Books

Nannicelli, Ted (2020). Artistic creation and ethical criticism. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197507247.001.0001
Nannicelli, Ted (2017). Appreciating the art of television: a philosophical perspective. New York, United States: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315732633
Nannicelli, Ted (2013). A Philosophy of the screenplay. New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203069103

Book Chapters

Cipa, Matthew, Nannicelli, Ted and Fantini, Joel (2024). Ferrara’s polarizing critical reception: clarity, coherence, and incongruity. ReFocus: The films of Abel Ferrara. (pp. 32-47) edited by Florian Zappe. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781399520119-005
Nannicelli, Ted (2023). Clarifying moral understanding. Screen stories and moral understanding: interdisciplinary perspectives. (pp. 19-35) edited by Carl Plantinga. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197665664.003.0002
Nannicelli, Ted (2023). Relativism and the Ethical Criticism of Art. The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art. (pp. 203-219) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197539798.013.14
Nannicelli, Ted (2022). Film Production and Ethical Criticism. A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value. (pp. 171-189) edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1002/9781119677154.ch8
Nannicelli, Ted and Pérez, Héctor J. (2022). Introduction: Cognition, emotion, and aesthetics in contemporary serial television. Cognition, emotion, and aesthetics in contemporary serial television contemporary serial television. (pp. 1-24) Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge.
Hjort, Mette and Nannicelli, Ted (2022). A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value: General Introduction. A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value. (pp. 1-21) edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
García, Alberto N. and Nannicelli, Ted (2022). Television's temporality: seriality and temporal prolongation. Cognition, emotion, and aesthetics in contemporary serial television. (pp. 27-46) edited by Ted Nannicelli and Héctor J. Pérez. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003188643-3
Nannicelli, Ted and Hjort, Mette (2022). Introduction: moral value/ethical value. A companion to motion pictures and public value. (pp. 109-112) edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781119677154.ch5
Hjort, Mette and Nannicelli, Ted (2022). Introduction: environmental/ecological value. A companion to motion pictures and public value. (pp. 281-307) edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119677154.ch13
Nannicelli, Ted and Hjort, Mette (2022). Introduction: spiritual value. A companion to motion pictures and public value. (pp. 211-234) edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119677154.ch10
Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Interactive documentary, narrative scepticism and the values of documentary film. Truth in visual media. (pp. 165-188) edited by Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781474474481-011
La Caze, Marguerite and Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Introduction. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 1-12) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781474474481-003
Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Interactive documentary, narrative scepticism, and the values of documentary film. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 167-188) edited by Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli. Edinburgh, Sotland: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474474467.003.0008
La Caze, Marguerite and Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Introduction. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 1-11) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Nannicelli, Ted (2019). seeing and hearing screen characters: stars, twofoldness, and the imagination. Screening characters: theories of character in film, television, and interactive media. (pp. 17-36) edited by Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429422508-2
Nannicelli, Ted (2019). What is a screenplay?. The Palgrave handbook of the philosophy of film and motion pictures. (pp. 215-234) edited by Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa and Shawn Loht. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-19601-1_10
Nannicelli, Ted (2019). The television medium. The Palgrave handbook of the philosophy of film and motion pictures. (pp. 949-970) edited by Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa-Knoop and Shawn Loht. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-19601-1_40
Nannicelli, Ted (2018). Cognitivism. The craft of criticism: critical media studies in practice. (pp. 157-168) edited by Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315879970-14
Nannicelli, Ted (2016). Screenplays. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature. (pp. 127-136) edited by Nöel Carroll and John Gibson. New York, NY, New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315708935-11
Nannicelli, Ted (2014). Formalist theories of film. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory. (pp. 214-219) edited by Edward Branigan and Warren Buckland. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Nannicelli, Ted and Taberham, Paul (2014). Introduction: contemporary cognitive media theory. Cognitive media theory. (pp. 1-23) edited by Ted Nannicelli and Paul Taberham. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203098226
Nannicelli, Ted (2014). Cognitive film theory. Oxford bibliographies: cinema and media studies. (pp. 1-2) edited by Krin Gabbard. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791286-0142
Nannicelli, Ted (2009). It's all connected: televisual narrative complexity. The Wire: urban decay and American television. (pp. 190-202) edited by Tiffany Potter and C. W. Marshall. London, United Kingdom: Continuum.

Journal Articles

Nannicelli, Ted and Bubenik, Andrea (2024). Art, ethics, and the relativism of distance. British Journal of Aesthetics, 64 (3) ayad045, 1-20. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayad045
Nannicelli, Ted (2024). Aesthetic education: a perceptual-cognitive model. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 20 (2), 283-305. doi: 10.31820/ejap.20.2.2
Nannicelli, Ted (2022). In Defence of the Production-Oriented Approach to the Ethical Criticism of Art: A Reply to James Harold. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 62 (4), 567-576. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayac031
Nannicelli, Ted (2022). How to Do (Im)moral Things with Artworks: Commentary on James Harold’s Dangerous Art. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 62 (4), 549-558. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayac012
Nannicelli, Ted (2022). Virtue Aesthetics: A Critical Survey. Pli, 34, 26-58.
Nannicelli, Ted and Hjort, Mette (2022). Introduction: Artistic and Aesthetic Value. A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value, 25-45. doi: 10.1002/9781119677154.cintro
Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Seria o roteiro uma obra de arte?. Esferas, 1 (21), 28. doi: 10.31501/esf.v1i21.13445
García Martínez, Alberto Nahum and Nannicelli, Ted (2021). Otro tipo de recompensa narrativa: el concepto de “prolongación temporal” como superación de la serialidad televisiva. Área Abierta, 21 (3), 349-365. doi: 10.5209/arab.75200
Caze, Marguerite La and Nannicelli, Ted (2021). INTRODUCTION. Truth in Visual Media: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics, 1-11.
Nannicelli, Ted (2019). Review of Aesthetic Evaluation and Film. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 60 (3), 362-364. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayz046
Nannicelli, Ted (2019). Aesthetics and the limits of the extended mind. British Journal of Aesthetics, 59 (1), 81-94. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayy048
Nannicelli, Ted (2019). From the editor. Projections (New York), 13 (3), v-vi. doi: 10.3167/proj.2019.130301
Shields, Kirril, Nannicelli, Ted and Theriault, Henry (2018). Denial: David Irving, and the complexities of representing a Holocaust denier. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 12 (3), 40-51. doi: 10.5038/1911-9933.12.3.1573
Nannicelli, Ted (2018). The interaction of ethics and aesthetics in environmental art. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 76 (4), 497-506. doi: 10.1111/jaac.12601
Nannicelli, Ted (2018). Animals, ethics, and the art world. October, 164, 113-132. doi: 10.1162/octo_a_00325
Nannicelli, Ted (2017). Ethical criticism and the interpretation of art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 75 (4), 401-413. doi: 10.1111/jaac.12395
Nannicelli, Ted (2017). Instances of cinema. Projections, 11 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.3167/proj.2017.110102
Nannicelli, Ted (2016). In defence of the objectivity of evaluative television criticism. Screen, 57 (2), 124-143. doi: 10.1093/screen/hjw017
Nannicelli, Ted and Turvey, Malcolm (2016). Against Post-cinema. Cinéma et Cie, 26/27, 33-44.
Nannicelli, Ted (2014). The naturalist theatrical aesthetic of bottle episodes. Critical Studies in Television, 9 (3), 54-64. doi: 10.7227/CST.9.3.6
Nannicelli, Ted (2014). Moderate comic immoralism and the genetic approach to the ethical criticism of art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 72 (2), 169-179. doi: 10.1111/jaac.12072
Nannicelli, Ted (2014). Review of Psychocinematics: Exploring Cognition at the Movies. Projections, 8 (1), 126-134. doi: 10.3167/proj.2014.080108
Nannicelli, Ted (2013). The ontology and literary status of the screenplay: the case of "Scriptfic". Journal of Literary Theory, 13 (1-2), 135-153. doi: 10.1515/jlt-2013-0006
Nannicelli, Ted (2013). Lisa Zunshine, Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture. Projections, 7 (2), 132-137. doi: 10.3167/proj.2013.070207
Nannicelli, Ted (2012). Hollywood Incoherent by Todd Berliner. British Journal of Aesthetics, 52 (3), 317-320. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayr054
Nannicelli, Ted (2012). Ontology, Intentionality, and Television Aesthetics.. Screen, 53 (2), 164-179. doi: 10.1093/screen/hjs004
Nannicelli, Ted (2012). Report on the Harry Ransom Center. Journal of Screenwriting, 3 (2), 247-248. doi: 10.1386/josc.3.2.247_7
Nannicelli, Ted (2012). The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 20 (5), 763-766. doi: 10.1080/09672559.2012.741824
Nannicelli, Ted (2012). The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema, by Paul Henley (2009). Studies in Documentary Film, 6 (1), 112-114.
Nannicelli, Ted (2012). New Takes in Film-Philosophy, edited by havi carel and greg tuck,y. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 70 (3), 326-328. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6245.2012.01523_6.x
Nannicelli, Ted (2011). Instructions and Artworks: Musical Scores, Theatrical Scripts, Architectural Plans, and Screenplays.. British Journal of Aesthetics, 51 (4), 399-414. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayr029
Nannicelli, Ted (2011). Why Can't Screenplays Be Artworks?. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 69 (4), 405-414. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01484.x
Nannicelli, Ted (2010). The Early Screenwriting Practice of Ernest Lehman. Journal of Screenwriting, 1 (2), 399-414. doi: 10.1386/josc.1.2.237/1
Nannicelli, Ted (2007). Luis Bunuel's Land Without Bread: the critics and the contexts. Studies in Documentary Film, 1 (2), 137-150. doi: 10.1386/sdf.1.2.137_1
Nannicelli, Ted (2006). From representation to evocation: tracing a progression in Jean Rouch's Les magiciens de Wanzerbe, Les maitres fous, and Jaguar. Visual Anthropology, 19 (2), 123-143. doi: 10.1080/08949460600596558

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