Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleThe logic of failures of the cinematic imagination: Two case studies - and a logical puzzle and solution in just one.AuthorsFulda, Joseph S.AbstractThis 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.SubjectsFAILURE (Psychology); LOGIC puzzles; MOTION pictures &; psychology; LOGIC; KIRK, James T. (Fictional character); STAR Trek filmsPublicationPragmatics & Society, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 1, p105ISSN1878-9714Publication typeArticleDOI10.1075/ps.4.1.05ful