Overview
- First book to present a unified theory of what a visual ethics might involve
- Presents the new concept of a biovisual ethics
- Offers a systematic account of the history of the ethical turn both in literature, film and visual culture
- Advances a new conceptualization of ethics in the cinema that is grounded in the imaginative worlds of the films themselves
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ethics
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Front Matter
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Imagination
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Front Matter
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Keywords
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Reviews
“Grønstad’s thought-provoking work provides a significant and novel contribution to the investigation of the relationship between ethics and film form.” (Andrew Jones, Film-Philosophy, Vol. 23, 2019)
“Film and the Ethical Imagination is a significant contribution to the field of film ethics; it does not set itself up as a survey of the field, but offers efficient overviews of developments in the past twenty years, as well as makes certain original contributions … .” (Jonathan Wright, Film Matters, Vol. 09 (2), 2019)
“Film and the Ethical Imagination is a wonderfully rich and intelligent book that is essential reading for anyone with an interest in questions of ethics and cinematic form. Introducing the concepts of bioscreens and biovisuality into the lexicon of film ethics, Grønstad offers an important new theory of screen ethics, one that shifts the emphasis away from content onto questions of aesthetic form, and that takes into consideration the serious ‘ramifications of our ecological entanglements’.” (Dr Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of visual culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, where he is also founding director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture Studies. The author or editor of nine books and numerous articles, his latest publication is Seeing Whole: Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight (co-edited with Mark Ledbetter, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Film and the Ethical Imagination
Authors: Asbjorn Gronstad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58374-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58373-4Published: 19 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58374-1Published: 24 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film Theory, Ethics, British Cinema and TV