A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 1119677122
• ISBN-13: 9781119677123
• Author: Wiley-Blackwell

A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value presents a cross-disciplinary investigation of the past, present, and possible future contributions of the moving image to the public good. This unique volume explores the direct and indirect public value developed through motion pictures of different types, genres, and screening sites. Essays by world-renowned scholars from diverse disciplines present original conceptual work, philosophical arguments, historical discussion, empirical research, and specific case studies.

Table contents:

Part I Artistic and Aesthetic Value
1 A Plurality of Values: Art, Fine Art, and Motion Pictures
2 Public Aesthetics and Artistic Value in Iranian Cinema
3 Appreciating Nature through Film: A Defense of Mediated Appreciation
4 Reframing the Director: Distributed Creativity in Filmmaking Practice

Part II Moral Value/Ethical Value
5 Screen Stories as “Imaginative Ecology”: A Thought Experiment
6 Interactive Documentary and Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Representativeness
7 The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects Their Value
8 Film Production and Ethical Criticism
9 Emotion and the Cultivation of Ethical Attention in Narrative Cinema

Part III Spiritual Value
10 Abundant, at Ease and Expansive?: The Influence of Māori and Polynesian Spirituality on 21st Century New Zealand Motion Pictures
11 Secularity, Transcendence, and Film
12 The Poetics of Karma: Reincarnation and Romance

Part IV Environmental /Ecological Value
13 Ecocinema and Ecological Value
14 From Content to Context (and Back Again): New Industrial Strategies for Environmental Sustainability in the Media
15 Jordnær Creative: A Danish Case Study of Green Filmmaking and Sustainable Production

Part V Cultural, Social and Political Value
16 Color Charts: A Cultural Chronicle of Non-Chinese Ethnic Images in Hong Kong Cinema
17 Film Policy, Social Value, and the Mediating Role of Screen Agencies
18 Cinema as Ceilidh and Hui: The Place of the Audience within Emergent Perspectives upon a Folk Cinema
19 The Past and Future of Public Value: The End of an Illustrious Career or Its Reinvention?

Part VI Cognitive, Educational, and Developmental Value
20 Representing the Redacted: Depicting the “Torture Archetype” in Film
21 Negotiating Power through Art: Participatory Video and Public Value
22 Virtual Reality and the Rhetoric of Empathy

Part VII The Value of Health
23 Narrative Sense-Making in the Service of Health—
A Neurocinematic Approach
24 The Smoking Machine: Public Health Films and Public Value in Britain and Denmark, 1950–1964
25 The Benefits of Genre: Feel-Good Films as a Path to Health and Well-Being
26 Movies in the Closed Wards: Instruments of Mental Health in Military Psychiatry

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