Film and Ethics

Through South Korean filmic and literary texts, this book explores affect and ethics in the healing of historical trauma, as alternatives to the me...

Reducere. "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king..." Shakespeare was repeating what the ancient Greeks had pioneered--if you wan...

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Emotion, Ethics, and the Ci...

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Emotion, Ethics, and the Ci...

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and qu...

How do we know the difference between right and wrong? How can we make decisions about issues from germ-line genetic engineering to the regulation ...

Reducere. Cinema, MD follows the intersection of medicine and film and how filmmakers wrote a history of medicine over time. The narrative follows several ma...

Unprecedented kinds of experience, and new modes of life, are now produced by simulations, from the CGI of Hollywood blockbusters to animal cloning...

Reducere. Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and ...

This book explores the shapes and boundaries of the emergent field of philosophy of childhood, and its intersections with the history of philosophy...

Exploring how the figure of the "wild child" in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and th...

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment hav...

Reducere. Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Dominic (University of Bristol, UK) LashIllustration(s): 22 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collectio...

Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work wa...

DescriptionIn an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped ...

Reducere. Differences That Matter challenges theories of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism that ask "is/should feminism be modern or postmo...

Designed to empower preachers as they lead congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tool...

Reducere. Designed to empower preachers as they lead congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tool...

Reducere. Designed to empower preachers as they lead congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tool...

Reducere. From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the cent...

Reducere. Written between 1945 and 1947, the essays in Sense and Non-Sense provide an excellent introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought. They summarize his p...

DescriptionWhat is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? In Touched Bodies, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she ...

Reducere. More than three decades ago, the film Field of Dreams made grown men cry with its tale of a son's quest to know his father through the magic of bas...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented...

Reducere. Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was an inner-city pastor, ethics professor, and author of the famous Serenity Prayer. Time magazine's 25th anniversary...