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Hanich, Julian; Rossouw, Martin P.

 
9780520386815: What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship
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ISBN 10: 0520386817 ISBN 13: 9780520386815
Editorial: University of California Press, 2023

Sinopsis

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. Their responses range from the most personal to the most theoretical―and, together, recast current debates about film ethics. 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.

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Acerca del autor

Julian Hanich is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Groningen. He is author of The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience and Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear.

Martin P. Rossouw is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Image Studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is author of Transformational Ethics of Film: Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philosophy Debate.

De la contraportada

"What Film Is Good For is a wonderfully ambitious and timely collection that takes the form, in a sense, of a questionnaire—one that importantly does not seek or need a singular response to the question it asks, as if film could only be good in one way or for one thing, or simply not at all. The diversity of responses collected here is itself a profound lesson in how capacious a moral claim need be if moral it truly is."—Brian Price, author of A Theory of Regret

"Whether one agrees with the writers' propositions, the pleasure of thinking through the claims, pondering these questions of worth, value, profit, loss, the many 'good fors' as well as the occasional 'not good for,' is a good, indeed, an excellence in itself, opening to a vast and valuable conversation."—Janet Staiger, author of Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema and Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception

"Their volume bookended by two marvelous pieces by filmmakers (Mike Figgis and Radu Jude), Julian Hanich and Martin Rossouw have assembled a peerless group of contributors to explore a wide range of compelling questions about film ethics and the value(s) of spectatorship. The result is a foundational volume for Screen Studies."—Catherine Grant, founding author of Film Studies for Free

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Editorial
University of California Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0520386817
ISBN 13 
9780520386815
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Número de páginas
429
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