Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index. Includes filmography: p. 265.
Contents:
Ethics in Narrative Form and Content -- Intersubjective Perception: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Evaluation -- Losing the Plot: Narrative Structure and Ethical Identity -- Under the Influence: Vice, Violence, and Villainy -- Resistance and Responsiveness: Emotion and Character Engagement -- Imagination: Inner Sight and Silent Voices -- Seeing in the Dark: Attentive Engagement -- Ethical Transformation.
Summary:
"This book questions how cinematic narratives relate to and affect ethical life. Extending Martha Nussbaum and Wayne Booth's work on moral philosophy and literature to consider cinema, Jane Stadler shows that film spectatorship can be understood as a model for ethical attention that engages the audience in an intersubjective experience, involving an affective relationship with characters and their values." "Stadler uses a phenomenological approach to analyze ethical dimensions of film extending beyond narrative content, arguing that the camera describes experience and views screen characters with an evaluative form of perception: an ethical gaze in which spectators participate. Films discussed include Dead Man Walking, Lost Highway, Batman Begins, Nil By Mouth, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."--BOOK JACKET.
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