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Screen stories : emotion and the ethics of engagement /

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The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time. Do we listen to each other? Do we ask the right questions? Do we speak about each other with respect or disdain? The stories that we convey on screens, or what author Carl Plantinga...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plantinga, Carl R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Moral and ethical aspects.
Culture in motion pictures.
Motion picture audiences > Psychology.
Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects.
Mass media and culture.
Mass media > Audiences > Psychology.
Criticism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The power of screen stories
  • The power of screen stories
  • The rhetoric of screen stories
  • Transfer and cultivation
  • Caveats and complications
  • Part II. Ethics and engagement
  • Engagement and estrangement
  • Immersion and emotion
  • Moralities and characters as moral agents
  • The personal and the political
  • Mood and ethics
  • Part 3. The contours of engagement
  • Ethics and character engagement
  • Narrative structure : closure and frame shifters
  • Narrative paradigm scenarios : revenge and the Other
  • Conclusion.