Screen stories and moral understanding : interdisciplinary perspectives /
"This book discusses the conditions under which stories we view on screens—movies, streamed series, and television—can lead to moral understanding in viewers. Moral understanding goes beyond moral knowledge; it is a complex cognitive achievement that may consist of the ability to understand why...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book discusses the conditions under which stories we view on screens—movies, streamed series, and television—can lead to moral understanding in viewers. Moral understanding goes beyond moral knowledge; it is a complex cognitive achievement that may consist of the ability to understand why, to ask the right questions, to categorize, to apply general models to specific incidents, and/or to make connections between morally charged situations that have a common underlying meaning. The authors approach the topic from the disciplinary perspectives of communication, psychology, philosophy, and film and media studies. This book is a first attempt to initiate interdisciplinary cooperation in this area. The authors make different grounding assumptions and use different terminologies, all while making progress on this issue. This interdisciplinary coverage makes this book uniquely interesting. Part I considers the nature of moral understanding in relation to screen stories. Part II describes transfer and cultivation, the means by which moving-image fictions can transfer knowledge to and cultivate perspectives in viewers. This perspective also considers the particular visual and aural means of communication employed in screen stories. Part III describes the role of affect in generating moral understanding and the implications of the viewer's engagement with fictional characters. Part IV examines the role of the viewer's engagement with fictional characters in moral understanding. Part V considers what we do with screen stories after viewing them, and traces how various institutions encourage and direct postfilm reflection"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197665701 0197665705 9780197665695 0197665691 |