Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics - Softcover

Stadler, Jane

 
9781441163028: Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1441163026 ISBN 13: 9781441163028
Publisher: Continuum, 2012

Synopsis

The most powerful films have an afterlife. Their sensory appeal and their capacity to elicit involvement in story, character and conflict reaches beyond the screen to subtly reframe the way spectators view ethical issues and agents within the narrative, and in the world outside the cinema. Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience and Narrative Film questions how cinematic narratives relate to and affect ethical life. Extending Martha Nussbaum and Wayne Booth's work on moral philosophy and literature to consider cinema, Dr. Stadler shows that film spectatorship can be understood as a model for ethical attention that engages the audience in an affective relationship with characters and their values. Building on Vivian Sobchack's Address of the Eye and Carnal Thoughts, she uses a phenomenological approach to analyse ethical dimensions of film extending beyond narrative content, arguing that the camera describes experience and views screen characters with an evaluative form of perception: an ethical gaze in which spectators participate. Films discussed include Dead Man Walking, Lost Highway, Batman Begins, Nil By Mouth, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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About the Author

Dr Stadler is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Queensland, Australian, and is on the editorial advisory board of the online journal IM: Interactive Media. She was Convenor of the Film Studies Major at the University of Cape Town (2002-2005), and is the recipient of the Murdoch University Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award (2000) and the University of Cape Town Teaching Merit Award (2004, 2005). She is co-author of Media and Society, Oxford University Press: 2005 (with Michael O'Shaughnessy).

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Publisher
Continuum
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1441163026
ISBN 13 
9781441163028
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288

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