{"product_id":"a-companion-to-motion-pictures-and-public-value-isbn-9781119677116","title":"A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA singular collection of original essays exploring the varied intersections of motion pictures and public value\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value \u003c\/i\u003epresents 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into seven thematically organized sections, the \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together work by expert authors in disciplines such as Philosophy, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Sociology, and Environmental Studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses a variety of institutional landscapes, policy formations, and types and styles of filmmaking\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides wide and inclusive coverage of cinema’s relation to public value in Africa, Asia, China, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the role of motion pictures in community formation, nation building, and the construction of good societies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers new and emerging topics such as cinema-based fields focused on health and wellbeing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiographical Notes xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Artistic and Aesthetic Value 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTed Nannicelli and Mette Hjort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Plurality of Values: Art, Fine Art, and Motion Pictures 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaisley Livingston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Public Aesthetics and Artistic Value in Iranian Cinema 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKhatereh Sheibani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Appreciating Nature through Film: A Defense of Mediated Appreciation 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlenn Parsons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Reframing the Director: Distributed Creativity in Filmmaking Practice 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Pearlman and John Sutton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Moral Value\/Ethical Value 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTed Nannicelli and Mette Hjort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Screen Stories as “Imaginative Ecology”: A Thought Experiment 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarl Plantinga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Interactive Documentary and Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Representativeness 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWillemien Sanders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects Their Value 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette Hjort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Film Production and Ethical Criticism 171\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTed Nannicelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Emotion and the Cultivation of Ethical Attention in Narrative Cinema 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Stadler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Spiritual Value 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTed Nannicelli and Mette Hjort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Abundant, at Ease and Expansive?: The Influence of Māori and Polynesian Spirituality on 21st Century New Zealand Motion Pictures 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnn Hardy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Secularity, Transcendence, and Film 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoy M. Anker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Poetics of Karma: Reincarnation and Romance 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Allen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Environmental \/Ecological Value 279\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 281\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Ecocinema and Ecological Value 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Sinnerbrink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 From Content to Context (and Back Again): New Industrial Strategies for Environmental Sustainability in the Media 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePietari Kääpä and Hunter Vaughan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Jordnar Creative: A Danish Case Study of Green Filmmaking and Sustainable Production 327\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Ahn Lund, Josefine Madsen, and Meryl Shriver-Rice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Cultural, Social and Political Value 351\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 353\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Color Charts: A Cultural Chronicle of Non-Chinese Ethnic Images in Hong Kong Cinema 357\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Nguyet Erni\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Film Policy, Social Value, and the Mediating Role of Screen Agencies 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth McElroy and Caitriona Noonan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Cinema as Ceilidh and Hui: The Place of the Audience within Emergent Perspectives upon a Folk Cinema 401\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJamie Chambers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Past and Future of Public Value: The End of an Illustrious Career or Its Reinvention? 427\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom O’Regan and Anna Potter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Cognitive, Educational, and Developmental Value 445\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 447\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Representing the Redacted: Depicting the “Torture Archetype” in Film 450\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJared Del Rosso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Negotiating Power through Art: Participatory Video and Public Value 469\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Cooke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Virtual Reality and the Rhetoric of Empathy 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDooley Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII The Value of Health 509\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 511\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Narrative Sense-Making in the Service of Health—A Neurocinematic Approach 515\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePia Tikka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Smoking Machine: Public Health Films and Public Value in Britain and Denmark, 1950–1964 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eC. Claire Thomson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Benefits of Genre: Feel-Good Films as a Path to Health and Well-Being 558\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette Hjort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Movies in the Closed Wards: Instruments of Mental Health in Military Psychiatry 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaia Scott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 597\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMette Hjort\u003c\/b\u003e is Chair Professor of Humanities, Department of Humanities \u0026amp; 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 \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Nordic Cinema.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTed Nannicelli\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eProjections: The Journal for Movies and Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eArtistic Creation and Ethical Criticism.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value\u003c\/i\u003e brings together original essays by world-renowned scholars investigating the varied intersections of the moving image and the public good. Covering a wide range of types and genres of cinema, this unprecedented volume explores the past, present, and possible future contributions of motion pictures to public value. With a cross-disciplinary approach, the text presents original conceptual work, global perspectives, philosophical arguments, historical discussion, empirical research, and specific case studies of the direct and indirect public value developed through motion pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganized into seven thematic sections, this \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e identifies and discusses the various kinds of values that motion pictures can deliver, including artistic and aesthetic, ethical and moral, spiritual and religious, cultural, environmental, political, and cognitive. Throughout the text, readers are provided with deep insight into the issue of public value as it relates to cinema and its positive impact on human life and society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988612268261,"sku":"NP9781119677116","price":199.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119677116.jpg?v=1761780970","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-motion-pictures-and-public-value-isbn-9781119677116","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}