ABSTRACT
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 methodologies. Contributors bring to the fore some of the assumptions implicitly shared between these theories and forge a new relationship between them in order to explore the moral engagement of the spectator and the ethical consequences of both producing and consuming films
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
The Ethical Self and Others
chapter 2|16 pages
Cinema's Compassionate Gaze
part II|65 pages
Documentary and the Ethical
chapter 6|15 pages
Uncomfortable Viewing
part III|50 pages
Exploitation and the Extreme
chapter 10|15 pages
Moral Agency, Artistic Immorality, and Critical Appreciation
part IV|39 pages
Ethics and the Images of Nature