1st Edition

Cine-Ethics Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship

Edited By Jinhee Choi, Mattias Frey Copyright 2014
256 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more

Introduction Jinhee Choi and Mattias Frey  Part 1: The Ethical Self and Others  1.A World Past D.N. Rodowick  2. Cinema’s Compassionate Gaze: Empathy, Affect, and Aesthetics in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jane Stadler  3. Moral Change: Fiction, Film, and Family Noël Carroll 4. Fault Lines: Deleuze, Cinema, and the Ethical Landscape Alasdair King  Part 2: Documentary and the Ethical  5. The Ethics of Contemplation: Kim Ki-duk’s Arirang, Jinhee Choi  6. Uncomfortable Viewing: Deauthorized Performances, Ethics and Spectatorship in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat, Robert A. Clift  7. Heddy Honigmann’s Contemplations on Ars Vitae and the Metamodern Turn Annelies van Noortwijk 8. Self-Reflexivity and Historical Revision in A Moment of Innocence and The Apple Vince Bohlinger  Part 3: Exploitation and the Extreme  9. The Ethics of Extreme Cinema Mattias Frey  10. Moral Agency, Artistic Immorality, and Critical Appreciation: Lars von Trier's The Idiots Trevor Ponech  11. Something to Hide: The Ethics of Surveillance in Saw Jason Middleton Part 4:Ethics and the Images of Nature 12. Community Engagement and Film: Toward the Pursuit of Ethical Goals through Applied Research on Moving Images Mette Hjort  13. Animal-Borne Imaging: Embodied Point-of-View and the Ethics of Identification Ruth Erickson

Biography

Jinhee Choi is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London, UK.

Mattias Frey is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent, UK.

"Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above" - CHOICE