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Film and the Ethical Imagination
Asbjorn Gronstad
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Description for Film and the Ethical Imagination
Hardback. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, 20 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content. This ethics operates hermeneutically and materializes in cinema's unique power to show us other modes of being. The author considers a wealth of contemporary art films and documentaries that embody ethical issues through the very form of the text. The ethical imagination generated by films such as The Nine ... Read more
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content. This ethics operates hermeneutically and materializes in cinema's unique power to show us other modes of being. The author considers a wealth of contemporary art films and documentaries that embody ethical issues through the very form of the text. The ethical imagination generated by films such as The Nine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137583734
SKU
V9781137583734
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99-15
About Asbjorn Gronstad
Asbjorn Gronstad is professor of visual culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, where he is also founding director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture Studies. The author or editor of nine books and numerous articles, his latest publication is Seeing Whole: Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight (co-edited with Mark Ledbetter, ... Read more
Reviews for Film and the Ethical Imagination
Film and the Ethical Imagination is a significant contribution to the field of film ethics; it does not set itself up as a survey of the field, but offers efficient overviews of developments in the past twenty years, as well as makes certain original contributions ... . (Jonathan Wright, Film Matters, Vol. 09 (2), 2019)