What film is good for : on the values of spectatorship / edited by Julian Hanich and Martin P. Rossouw ; foreword by Mike Figgis ; afterword by Radu Jude.
Publisher:
University of California Press,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xiii, 413 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Foreword / by Mike Figgis -- Introduction : film ethics as delivering the goods / Martin P. Rossouw and Julian Hanich -- A portal to another world : on cinema, climate change, and a good apocalypse / Jennifer Fay -- Scaling down : on the unsustainable pleasure of large-file streaming / Laura U. Marks -- It's invaluable : on film spectatorship in the era of Covid-19 / Sarah Cooper -- Stabilities and mobilities : on the generic values of emplacements, displacements, and outplacements / Timothy Corrigan -- Lies, loops, or liberation : on the dis/obedience of feeling more / Michele Aaron -- Public engagement : on postcolonial African cinema's critical value / Litheko Modisane -- Shedding light on abject lives : on global cinema as ethical art / Seung-hoon Jeong -- Empathy : on its limitations and liabilities / Malcolm Turvey -- Political impact : on the societal vibrancy of film / Jens Eder -- Moral reflection : on the reflective afterlife of screen stories / Carl Plantinga and Garrett Strpko -- Challenge and discomfort : on situated elitist pleasures in art and indie film / Geoff King -- Heterocosmic connections : on the many worlds and world-values of cinema / Daniel Yacavone -- Depth of experience : on early phenomenology and the value of boredome in the cinema / Christian Ferencz-Flatz -- Striking beauty : on recuperating the beautiful in cinema / Julian Hanich -- Wondering offscreen : on cinema's transformations of our relation to the unseen / Jaimie Baron -- Coming to wonder : on cinema's renewal of vision / Catherine Wheatley -- Moral improvement : on how watching films might make us better people / Thomas E. Wartenberg -- Cinematic ethics : on film as transformative experience / Robert Sinnerbrink -- Spiritual exercises before a screen : on "film as philosophy" and its transformational ethics / Martin P. Rossouw -- Remembrance and reflection : on social justice cinema in the #BlackLivesMatter era / Maryann Erigha Lawer -- Making movie generations : on the cultural work of Hollywood remaking / Kathleen Loock -- Reaching unlettered audiences : on global blockbuster cinema and its oral affinities / Sheila J. Nayar -- Love of community and reality : on AndreĢ Bazin and the good of cinema / Dudley Andrew -- Projection and protection : on cinemagoing as playing hide and seek with reality / Francesco Casetti -- An animated and animating medium : on Hegel, Adorno, and the good of film / Nicholas Baer -- The bigger picture : on watching films on a cinema screen / Martine Beugnet -- Quality time : on resisting what's next, or staying with the credits / Tiago de Luca -- Wanton destruction : on cinema's anti-social thrills / Adrian Martin -- Alienating interventions : on what the "bad" in David Lynch's films is "good" for / Annie van den Oever and Dominique Chateau -- Dangerous situations : on whether cinema is poisonous / Michel Chion -- Good for nothing? : on how films help us through the night / Tom Gunning -- Medium-sized matters : on whether cinema has made any difference / Mark Cousins -- Afterword / by Radu Jude.
Summary:
"For well over a century, going to the movies has been a favorite pastime for billions across the globe. But is film actually good for anything? This volume brings together thirty-six scholars, critics, and filmmakers in search of an answer. The result is a series of responses that recast current debates about film ethics, ranging from the most personal to the most theoretical. Movie-watching here emerges as a wellspring of value, able to sustain countless visions of 'the good life.' Films, these authors affirm, make us reflect, connect, adapt; they evoke wonder and beauty; they challenge and transform. In a word, its varieties of value make film invaluable"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.