Contemporary Screen Ethics : : Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew /

Contemporary Screen Ethics : : Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew / / ed. by Robert Sinnerbrink, David Martin-Jones, Lucy Bolton.

Explores the intertwining of the ethical with the sociopolitical across a range of screen media in different contexts internationally.Includes such diverse examples as: intersectional feminist ethics (from the housemaid in Brazilian “Big House” dramas to Carol Morley documentaries); the human/nature...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Birks, Chelsea,
Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.,
Bolton, Lucy,
Chanter, Tina,
HerausgeberIn:
Bolton, Lucy,
Martin-Jones, David,
Sinnerbrink, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 29 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Absences, Identities, Belonging: Looking Anew at Screen Ethics
  • Part One. Histories and Absences
  • 1. Domestic Work, Gender, Race, Class and the Ethical Paradox of the Big House in Brazilian Cinema
  • 2. Cinematic Ethics and a World of Cinemas: A Reason to Believe in this World’s History in Hu Jie’s Wo sui si qu/Though I am Gone
  • 3. Memory, Witnessing and Re-enactment: The Look of Silence, S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Cinematic Ethics
  • Part Two. Bodies and Identities
  • 4. Becoming Beyoncé: Disidentification and Racial Imaginaries
  • 5. Race, Bodies and Altered Identities in Sleight and Us
  • Part Three. Love and Belonging
  • 6. A Planetary Whole for the Alienated: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea through Jameson and Deleuze
  • 7. Mermaids and Superpigs: Loving Nature under Global Capitalism
  • 8. Dreaming of Joyce Vincent’s Life: Carol Morley’s Intersectional Ethics of Care
  • Part Four. Looking Anew
  • 9. Empathy Machines, Indifference Engines and Digital Extensions of Perception
  • 10. Do You See what I See? The Ethics of Seeing Race in Get Out
  • 11. Don’t Look Away: Production-assemblages of Rape Culture in Midi Z’s Nina Wu
  • Index

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