Ethics at the Cinema
Ward E. Jones and Samantha Vice
Abstract
Ethics at the Cinema is a collection of original philosophical papers on film. Contributors were invited to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film; they were given the freedom to write on a topic and film of their choice. All contributors have previously written in ethics and/or the philosophy of film, but they come from a wide range of traditions and backgrounds within both. The collection is divided into two parts: ‘Part 1: Critique, Character, and the Power of Film’, and ‘Part 2: Philosophical Readings’. The papers in Part 1 en ... More
Ethics at the Cinema is a collection of original philosophical papers on film. Contributors were invited to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film; they were given the freedom to write on a topic and film of their choice. All contributors have previously written in ethics and/or the philosophy of film, but they come from a wide range of traditions and backgrounds within both. The collection is divided into two parts: ‘Part 1: Critique, Character, and the Power of Film’, and ‘Part 2: Philosophical Readings’. The papers in Part 1 engage explicitly with meta-issues surrounding film, film narratives, and film viewing. The papers comprising Part 2 are engaged less with issues about film than with the details of their chosen film: its characters, its plot, and its particular uses of images.
Keywords:
ethics,
film,
narrative,
philosophy,
philosophical reading
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195320398 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320398.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Ward E. Jones, editor
Rhodes University
Samantha Vice, editor
Rhodes University
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