Wyatt Moss-Wellington

Narrative Humanism (eBook, PDF)

Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film

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Produktbeschreibung

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questioning the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent human social complexity in fiction. With case studies of films like Parenthood (1989), American Beauty (1999), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and The Kids Are All Right (2010), this original study synthesises leading discourses on media and cognition, evolutionary anthropology, literature and film analysis into a new theory of the storytelling instinct.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474454339
• Artikelnr.: 72419957

Autorenporträt

Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies and Director of Teaching in the School of International Communications at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is the author of Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film and co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, both released by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. Moss-Wellington received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2017. He is also a progressive folk multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, and has released four studio albums: The Kinder We (2017), Sanitary Apocalypse (2014), Gen Y Irony Stole My Heart (2011) and The Supermarket and the Turncoat (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
PART I: Humanist Hermeneutics
Introduction
CH1: Reading the Human Drama in Film and Fiction
PART II: Social Narratology
CH2: Foundational Functions of Fiction
CH3: Affective Functions of Fiction
CH4: Connectedness and Character
CH5: Mental Work and Memory
CH6: Ethics and Conclusions
PART III: Genre Case Study: The Suburban Ensemble Dramedy
CH7: An Introduction to the Millennial Suburban Ensemble Film
CH8: Discussions: Affect, Sociopolitics and the Ensemble Narrative
PART IV: Close Reading Case Study: Parenthood
CH9: Parenthood: A Humanistic Close Reading
Afterword
Bibliography