Screen Stories and Moral Understanding (eBook, PDF)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Redaktion: Plantinga, Carl

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The stories we tell and show, in whatever medium, play varied roles in human cultures. One such role is to contribute to moral understanding. Moral understanding goes beyond moral knowledge; it is a complex cognitive achievement that may consist of one or more of the following: the ability to understand why, to ask the right questions, categorization, the application of models to specific incidents, or the capacity to make connections between morally charged situations that have a common underlying meaning. While the disciplines of communication, psychology, philosophy, and film and media studies have all made significant scholarly progress on this issue, they make different grounding assumptions and use different terminologies. Screen Stories and Moral Understanding approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective and explores the conditions under which stories we view on screens-movies, streamed series, and television-can lead to moral understanding in viewers. In five sections, this book explores the nature of moral understanding in relation to screen stories, the means by which moving image fictions can transfer knowledge to and cultivate perspectives in viewers, the role of affect in generating moral understanding, the viewer's engagement with characters, and what we do with screen stories after viewing them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197665688
• Artikelnr.: 68522488

Autorenporträt

Carl Plantinga is Senior Research Fellow at Calvin University. Among his books are Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (2018) and Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* Notes on Contributors
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* by Carl Plantinga
* I. Moral Understanding
* 1. Clarifying Moral Understanding
* by Ted Nannicelli
* 2. Understanding (mis)understanding: Sally be a Lamb
* by Paul C. Taylor
* II. Transfer and Cultivation
* 3. Phenomenal Experience and Moral Understanding: A Framework for
Assessment
* By Carl Plantinga
* 4. The Slow, Subtle, Small Effects of Filmic Narrative on Moral
Understanding
* by Helena Bilandzic
* 5. Moral Conflict, Screen Stories, and Narrative Appeal
* by René Weber and Frederic Hopp
* 6. How Screen Stories Can Contribute to the Formation of Just Persons
* by Nicholas Wolterstorff
* III. Affect
* 7. Affect and Moral Understanding
* by Robert Sinnerbrink
* 8. Morality and Media: The Role of Elevation/Inspiration
* by Mary Beth Oliver
* IV. Character Engagement
* 9. Media Characters and Moral Understanding: Perspectives from Media
Psychology
* by Allison Eden and Mathew Grizzard
* 10. Movies, Examples, and Morality: The Rhetoric of Admiration
* by Noël Carroll
* V. The Reflective Afterlife
* 11. What Roles Can Audiences Play in Generating Moral Understanding?
* by James Harold
* 12. On Reflecting on Reflections: The Moral Afterlife and Screen
Studies
* by Wyatt Moss-Wellington
* 13. The Reflective Afterlife and the Ends of Imagining
* by Murray Smith
* Index