Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics

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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 subtley reframe the way spectators view issues in the narrative, and in the world outside the cinema.
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Overview

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 subtley reframe the way spectators view issues in the narrative, and in the world outside the cinema.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780826429735
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Publication date: 9/1/2008
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet 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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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Ethics in Narrative Form and Content

Chapter 2: A Phenomenological Approach to the Ethics of Film

Chapter 3: Losing the Plot: Narrative Structure and Ethical Identity

Chapter 4: Under the Influence: Vice, Violence and Villainy

Chapter 5: Resistance and Responsiveness: Emotion and Character Engagement

Chapter 6: Imagination: Inner Sight and Silent Voices

Chapter 7: Seeing in the Dark: Cinema, Ethics, and Alternative Engagement

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