What film is good for : on the values of spectatorship / edited by Julian Hanich and Martin P. Rossouw ; foreword by Mike Figgis ; afterword by Radu Jude.

"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. The result is a series of responses that recast current de...

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Other Authors: Hanich, Julian, 1975- (Editor)
Rossouw, Martin P. (Editor)
Figgis, Mike (writer of foreword.)
Jude, Radu (writer of afterword.)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
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Physical Description:xiii, 413 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Foreword / by Mike Figgis -- Introduction : film ethics as delivering the goods / Martin P. Rossouw and Julian Hanich -- A portal to another world : on cinema, climate change, and a good apocalypse / Jennifer Fay -- Scaling down : on the unsustainable pleasure of large-file streaming / Laura U. Marks -- It's invaluable : on film spectatorship in the era of Covid-19 / Sarah Cooper -- Stabilities and mobilities : on the generic values of emplacements, displacements, and outplacements / Timothy Corrigan -- Lies, loops, or liberation : on the dis/obedience of feeling more / Michele Aaron -- Public engagement : on postcolonial African cinema's critical value / Litheko Modisane -- Shedding light on abject lives : on global cinema as ethical art / Seung-hoon Jeong -- Empathy : on its limitations and liabilities / Malcolm Turvey -- Political impact : on the societal vibrancy of film / Jens Eder -- Moral reflection : on the reflective afterlife of screen stories / Carl Plantinga and Garrett Strpko -- Challenge and discomfort : on situated elitist pleasures in art and indie film / Geoff King -- Heterocosmic connections : on the many worlds and world-values of cinema / Daniel Yacavone -- Depth of experience : on early phenomenology and the value of boredome in the cinema / Christian Ferencz-Flatz -- Striking beauty : on recuperating the beautiful in cinema / Julian Hanich -- Wondering offscreen : on cinema's transformations of our relation to the unseen / Jaimie Baron -- Coming to wonder : on cinema's renewal of vision / Catherine Wheatley -- Moral improvement : on how watching films might make us better people / Thomas E. Wartenberg -- Cinematic ethics : on film as transformative experience / Robert Sinnerbrink -- Spiritual exercises before a screen : on "film as philosophy" and its transformational ethics / Martin P. Rossouw -- Remembrance and reflection : on social justice cinema in the #BlackLivesMatter era / Maryann Erigha Lawer -- Making movie generations : on the cultural work of Hollywood remaking / Kathleen Loock -- Reaching unlettered audiences : on global blockbuster cinema and its oral affinities / Sheila J. Nayar -- Love of community and reality : on André Bazin and the good of cinema / Dudley Andrew -- Projection and protection : on cinemagoing as playing hide and seek with reality / Francesco Casetti -- An animated and animating medium : on Hegel, Adorno, and the good of film / Nicholas Baer -- The bigger picture : on watching films on a cinema screen / Martine Beugnet -- Quality time : on resisting what's next, or staying with the credits / Tiago de Luca -- Wanton destruction : on cinema's anti-social thrills / Adrian Martin -- Alienating interventions : on what the "bad" in David Lynch's films is "good" for / Annie van den Oever and Dominique Chateau -- Dangerous situations : on whether cinema is poisonous / Michel Chion -- Good for nothing? : on how films help us through the night / Tom Gunning -- Medium-sized matters : on whether cinema has made any difference / Mark Cousins -- Afterword / by Radu Jude. 
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