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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Plantinga, Carl R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Clarifying moral understanding / Ted Nannicelli
  • Understanding (mis)understanding: Sally be a lamb / Paul C. Taylor
  • Phenomenal experience and moral understanding: a framework for assessment / Carl Plantinga
  • Moral cultivation: the slow, subtle, small effects of filmic narrative on moral understanding / Helena Bilandzic
  • Moral conflict, screen stories, and narrative appeal / René Weber and Frederic R. Hopp
  • How screen stories can contribute to the formation of just persons / Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • Affect and moral understanding / Robert Sinnerbrink
  • Morality and media: the role of elevation/inspiration / Mary Beth Oliver
  • Media characters and moral understanding: perspectives from media psychology / Allison Eden and Matthew Grizzard
  • Movies, examples, and morality: the rhetoric of admiration / Noël Carroll
  • Audiences' role in generating moral understanding: screen stories as sites for interpretative communities / James Harold
  • On reflecting on reflections: the moral afterlife and screen studies / Wyatt Moss-Wellington
  • The reflective afterlife and the ends of imagining / Murray Smith.