A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value de M Hjort

A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value

M Hjort

A singular collection of original essays exploring the varied intersections of motion pictures and public value

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.

Divided into seven thematically organized sections, the Companion identifies the various kinds of values that motion pictures can deliver, amongst them artistic, ethical, environmental, cultural, political, cognitive, and spiritual value. Each section includes an introduction in which the editors outline main themes and highlight connections between individual chapters. Throughout the text, probing essays interrogate the issue of public value as it relates to the cinema and provide insight into how motion pictures play a positive role in human life and society. Featuring original research essays on a pioneering topic, this innovative reference text:

Brings together work by expert authors in disciplines such as Philosophy, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Sociology, and Environmental Studies
Discusses a variety of institutional landscapes, policy formations, and types and styles of filmmaking
Provides wide and inclusive coverage of cinema’s relation to public value in Africa, Asia, China, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas
Explores the role of motion pictures in community formation, nation building, and the construction of good societies
Covers new and emerging topics such as cinema-based fields focused on health and wellbeing

A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, and is a valuable resource for scholars across a variety of disciplines

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Acknowledgments xi Biographical Notes xii General Introduction 1 Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli Part I Artistic and Aesthetic Value 23 Introduction 25 Ted Nannicelli and Mette Hjort 1 A Plurality of Values: Art, Fine Art, and Motion Pictures 30 Paisley Livingston 2 Public Aesthetics and Artistic Value in Iranian Cinema 46 Khatereh Sheibani 3 Appreciating Nature through Film: A Defense of Mediated Appreciation 69 Glenn Parsons 4 Reframing the Director: Distributed Creativity in Filmmaking Practice 86 Karen Pearlman and John Sutton Part II Moral Value/Ethical Value 107 Introduction 109 Ted Nannicelli and Mette Hjort 5 Screen Stories as "Imaginative Ecology": A Thought Experiment 113 Carl Plantinga 6 Interactive Documentary and Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Representativeness 130 Willemien Sanders 7 The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects Their Value 148 Mette Hjort 8 Film Production and Ethical Criticism 171 Ted Nannicelli 9 Emotion and the Cultivation of Ethical Attention in Narrative Cinema 190 Jane Stadler Part III Spiritual Value 209 Introduction 211 Ted Nannicelli and Mette Hjort 10 Abundant, at Ease and Expansive?: The Influence of Mori and Polynesian Spirituality on 21st Century New Zealand Motion Pictures 213 Ann Hardy 11 Secularity, Transcendence, and Film 235 Roy M. Anker 12 The Poetics of Karma: Reincarnation and Romance 254 Richard Allen Part IV Environmental /Ecological Value 279 Introduction 281 Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli 13 Ecocinema and Ecological Value 285 Robert Sinnerbrink 14 From Content to Context (and Back Again): New Industrial Strategies for Environmental Sustainability in the Media 308 Pietari Kääpä and Hunter Vaughan 15 Jordnar Creative: A Danish Case Study of Green Filmmaking and Sustainable Production 327 Anne Ahn Lund, Josefine Madsen, and Meryl Shriver-Rice Part V Cultural, Social and Political Value 351 Introduction 353 Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli 16 Color Charts: A Cultural Chronicle of Non-Chinese Ethnic Images in Hong Kong Cinema 357 John Nguyet Erni 17 Film Policy, Social Value, and the Mediating Role of Screen Agencies 382 Ruth McElroy and Caitriona Noonan 18 Cinema as Ceilidh and Hui: The Place of the Audience within Emergent Perspectives upon a Folk Cinema 401 Jamie Chambers 19 The Past and Future of Public Value: The End of an Illustrious Career or Its Reinvention? 427 Tom O'Regan and Anna Potter Part VI Cognitive, Educational, and Developmental Value 445 Introduction 447 Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli 20 Representing the Redacted: Depicting the "Torture Archetype" in Film 450 Jared Del Rosso 21 Negotiating Power through Art: Participatory Video and Public Value 469 Paul Cooke 22 Virtual Reality and the Rhetoric of Empathy 488 Dooley Murphy Part VII The Value of Health 509 Introduction 511 Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli 23 Narrative Sense-Making in the Service of Health--A Neurocinematic Approach 515 Pia Tikka 24 The Smoking Machine: Public Health Films and Public Value in Britain and Denmark, 1950-1964 536 C. Claire Thomson 25 The Benefits of Genre: Feel-Good Films as a Path to Health and Well-Being 558 Mette Hjort 26 Movies in the Closed Wards: Instruments of Mental Health in Military Psychiatry 576 Kaia Scott Index 597

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Mette Hjort is Chair Professor of Humanities, Department of Humanities & Creative Writing, and Dean of Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research spans the fields of film and media studies, literary studies, theatre studies, and philosophy. She has authored and edited numerous works including A Companion to Nordic Cinema. Ted Nannicelli is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia. He is the editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind and author of Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism.