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1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Advances in Film Studies |
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Routledge advances in film studies.
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| Contents |
The Ethical Self and Others -- A World Past -- Cinema's Compassionate Gaze: Empathy, Affect, and Aesthetics in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly -- Moral Change: Fiction, Film, and Family -- Fault Lines: Deleuze, Cinema, and the Ethical Landscape -- Documentary and the Ethical -- The Ethics of Contemplation: Kim Ki-duk's Arirang -- Uncomfortable Viewing: Deauthorized Performances, Ethics, and Spectatorship in Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat -- Heddy Honigmann's Contemplations on Ars Vitae and the Metamodern Turn -- Self-Reflexivity and Historical Revision in A Moment of Innocence and The Apple -- Exploitation and the Extreme -- The Ethics of Extreme Cinema -- Moral Agency, Artistic Immorality, and Critical Appreciation: Lars von Trier's The Idiots -- Something to Hide: The Ethics of Spectatorship in Saw -- Ethics and the Images of Nature -- Community Engagement and Film: Toward the Pursuit of Ethical Goals through Applied Research on Moving Images -- Animal-Borne Imaging: Embodied Point-of-View and the Ethics of Identification; Contributors; References |
| Summary |
This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators' affective and emotional engagement with film, which can function as a moral ground for one's connection to others and to the world outside the self. These traditions encompass theories of emotion, phenomenology, the philosophy of compassion, and analytic and continental ethical thinking and environmental ethics. This anthology is one of the first volumes to open up a dialogue among these diverse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Choi, Jinhee.
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Frey, Mattias.
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| ISBN |
9781136745966 |
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1136745963 |
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9780203385661 |
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0203385667 |
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