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Film and the Ethical Imagination

Gronstad Asbjorn
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781137583734
Publisert
2016-12-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Gronstad Asbjorn

Om bidragsyterne

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).

Film and the Ethical Imagination

Gronstad Asbjorn
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
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<p></p><p>“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)</p><p>“Film and the Ethical Imagination<i> </i>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)</p>

This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content. This ethics operates hermeneutically and materializes in cinema’s unique power to show us other modes of being. The author considers a wealth of contemporary art films and documentaries that embody ethical issues through the very form of the text. The ethical imagination generated by films such as The Nine Muses, Post Tenebras Lux, Amour, and Nostalgia For the Light is crucially defined by openness, uncertainty, opacity, and the refusal of hegemonic practices of visual representation.
Les mer
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content.
Les mer
Introduction.- Part I: Ethics.- From an ethics of transgression to a general ethics of form.- Optics as an Ethics.- The Return of Ethics in Literary Studies.- Screen Ethics before the Ethical Turn.- The Ethical Turn in Film and Visual Culture: From Content to Form.- The Responsibility of Forms.- Six Theses on the Ethical Imagination.- Part II: Imagination.- Ethical Intimacy and the Cinematic Face.- Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration.- The Ethics of Dying.- A Cinema of Gestures.- Ethics, Politics and the Question of Form.- The Ethical Image Between Fiction and Politics.- The Ethics of Matter and Memory.- Bioscreens.- Film Visions, Planetary Ethics.- 
Les mer
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content. This ethics operates hermeneutically and materializes in cinema’s unique power to show us other modes of being. The author considers a wealth of contemporary art films and documentaries that embody ethical issues through the very form of the text. The ethical imagination generated by films such as The Nine Muses, Post Tenebras Lux, Amour, and Nostalgia For the Light is crucially defined by openness, uncertainty, opacity, and the refusal of hegemonic practices of visual representation.
Les mer
“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)
Les mer
"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, Gronstad 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)
Les mer
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
Les mer

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<p></p><p>“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)</p><p>“Film and the Ethical Imagination<i> </i>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)</p>

This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content. This ethics operates hermeneutically and materializes in cinema’s unique power to show us other modes of being. The author considers a wealth of contemporary art films and documentaries that embody ethical issues through the very form of the text. The ethical imagination generated by films such as The Nine Muses, Post Tenebras Lux, Amour, and Nostalgia For the Light is crucially defined by openness, uncertainty, opacity, and the refusal of hegemonic practices of visual representation.
Les mer
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content.
Les mer
Introduction.- Part I: Ethics.- From an ethics of transgression to a general ethics of form.- Optics as an Ethics.- The Return of Ethics in Literary Studies.- Screen Ethics before the Ethical Turn.- The Ethical Turn in Film and Visual Culture: From Content to Form.- The Responsibility of Forms.- Six Theses on the Ethical Imagination.- Part II: Imagination.- Ethical Intimacy and the Cinematic Face.- Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration.- The Ethics of Dying.- A Cinema of Gestures.- Ethics, Politics and the Question of Form.- The Ethical Image Between Fiction and Politics.- The Ethics of Matter and Memory.- Bioscreens.- Film Visions, Planetary Ethics.- 
Les mer
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content. This ethics operates hermeneutically and materializes in cinema’s unique power to show us other modes of being. The author considers a wealth of contemporary art films and documentaries that embody ethical issues through the very form of the text. The ethical imagination generated by films such as The Nine Muses, Post Tenebras Lux, Amour, and Nostalgia For the Light is crucially defined by openness, uncertainty, opacity, and the refusal of hegemonic practices of visual representation.
Les mer
“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)
Les mer
"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, Gronstad 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)
Les mer
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
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781137583734
Publisert
2016-12-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Gronstad Asbjorn

Om bidragsyterne

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).

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