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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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2023]
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 413 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.