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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanich, Julian, 1975- editor.

Rossouw, Martin P., editor.

Figgis, Mike, writer of foreword.

Jude, Radu, writer of afterword.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xiii, 413 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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 debates about film ethics, ranging from the most personal to the most theoretical. Movie-watching here emerges as a wellspring of value, able to sustain countless visions of 'the good life.' Films, these authors affirm, make us reflect, connect, adapt; they evoke wonder and beauty; they challenge and transform. In a word, its varieties of value make film invaluable"-- Provided by publisher.

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 boredom 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 antisocial 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: What film is good for

ISBN:

9780520386808

0520386809

9780520386815

0520386817

OCLC:

1373844040