Screen stories and moral understanding : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Carl Plantinga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plantinga, Carl R., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling in mass media.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Screen Stories and Moral Understanding' considers the place of movies, streamed series, and television in the lives of viewers, paying particular attention to their role in leading to moral rumination and learning. The book considers how screen stories can transfer knowledge and cultivate sensibilities and responses. It shows how the affective responses of viewers and viewers' psychological relationships with fictional characters figure into the influence of narrative. It also describes the means by which institutions encourage and direct reflection on screen stories after the viewing has ended.

Contents:

Cover

Screen Stories and Moral Understanding

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Clarifying Moral Understanding

I. MORAL UNDERSTANDING

2. Understanding (Mis)understanding: Sally Be a Lamb

II. TRANSFER AND CULTIVATION

3. Phenomenal Experience and Moral Understanding: A Framework for Assessment

4. Moral Cultivation: The Slow, Subtle, Small Effects of Filmic Narrative on Moral Understanding

5. Moral Conflict, Screen Stories, and Narrative Appeal

6. How Screen Stories Can Contribute to the Formation of Just Persons

III. AFFECT

7. Affect and Moral Understanding

8. Morality and Media: The Role of Elevation/​Inspiration

IV. CHARACTER ENGAGEMENT

9. Media Characters and Moral Understanding: Perspectives from Media Psychology

10. Movies, Examples, and Morality: The Rhetoric of Admiration

V. THE REFLECTIVE AFTERLIFE

11. Audiences' Role in Generating Moral Understanding: Screen Stories as Sites for Interpretative Communities

12. On Reflecting on Reflections: The Moral Afterlife and Screen Studies

13. The Reflective Afterlife and the Ends of Imagining

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-766569-1

0-19-766570-5

0-19-766568-3