{"product_id":"what-film-is-good-for-9780520386808","title":"What Film Is Good For","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor well over a century, going to the movies has been a favorite pastime for billions across the globe. But is film actuallygoodfor anything? This volume brings together thirty-six scholars, critics, and filmmakers in search of an answer. Their responses range from the most personal to the most theoreticaland, together, recast current debates about film ethics. Movie watching here emerges as a wellspring of value, able to sustain countless visions of the good life. Films, these authors affirm, make us reflect, connect, adapt; they evoke wonder and beauty; they challenge and transform. In a word, its varieties of value make filminvaluable.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Mike Figgis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Film Ethics as Delivering the Goods \u003cbr\u003e Martin P. Rossouw and Julian Hanich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. ADAPTIVE GOODS\u003cbr\u003e 1. . . . A Portal to Another World: On Cinema, Climate Change, and a Good Apocalypse \u003cbr\u003e Jennifer Fay\u003cbr\u003e 2. . . . Scaling Down: On the Unsustainable Pleasure of Large-File Streaming \u003cbr\u003e Laura U. Marks\u003cbr\u003e 3. . . . It’s Invaluable: On Film Spectatorship in the Era of Covid-19 \u003cbr\u003e Sarah Cooper\u003cbr\u003e 4. . . . Stabilities and Mobilities: On the Generic Values of Emplacements, Displacements, \u003cbr\u003e and Outplacements \u003cbr\u003e Timothy Corrigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. EMPATHETIC GOODS \u003cbr\u003e 5. . . . Lies, Loops, or Liberation: On the Dis\/Obedience of Feeling More \u003cbr\u003e Michele Aaron\u003cbr\u003e 6. . . . Public Engagement: On Postcolonial African Cinema’s Critical Value \u003cbr\u003e Litheko Modisane\u003cbr\u003e 7. . . . Shedding Light on Abject Lives: On Global Cinema as Ethical Art \u003cbr\u003e Seung-hoon Jeong\u003cbr\u003e 8. . . . Empathy: On Its Limitations and Liabilities \u003cbr\u003e Malcolm Turvey\u003cbr\u003e 9. . . . Political Impact: On the Societal Vibrancy of Film \u003cbr\u003e Jens Eder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE. SENSTITIVE GOODS \u003cbr\u003e 10. . . . Moral Reflection: On the Reflective Afterlife of Screen Stories \u003cbr\u003e Carl Plantinga and Garrett Strpko\u003cbr\u003e 11. . . . Challenge and Discomfort: On Situated Elitist Pleasures in Art and Indie Film \u003cbr\u003e Geoff King\u003cbr\u003e 12. . . . Heterocosmic Connections: On the Many Worlds and World Values of Cinema \u003cbr\u003e Daniel Yacavone\u003cbr\u003e 13. . . . Depth of Experience: On Early Phenomenology and the Value of Boredom in the Cinema \u003cbr\u003e Christian Ferencz-Flatz\u003cbr\u003e 14. . . . Striking Beauty: On Recuperating the Beautiful in Cinema \u003cbr\u003e Julian Hanich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR. REVIVING GOODS \u003cbr\u003e 15. . . . Wondering Offscreen: On Cinema’s Transformations of Our Relation to the Unseen \u003cbr\u003e Jaimie Baron\u003cbr\u003e 16. . . . Coming to Wonder: On Cinema’s Renewal of Vision \u003cbr\u003e Catherine Wheatley\u003cbr\u003e 17. . . . Moral Improvement: On How Watching Films Might Make Us Better People \u003cbr\u003e Thomas E. Wartenberg\u003cbr\u003e 18. . . . Cinematic Ethics: On Film as Transformative Experience \u003cbr\u003e Robert Sinnerbrink\u003cbr\u003e 19. . . . Spiritual Exercises Before a Screen: On “Film as Philosophy” and Its Transformational \u003cbr\u003e Ethics \u003cbr\u003e Martin P. Rossouw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FIVE. COMMUNAL GOODS \u003cbr\u003e 20. . . . Remembrance and Reflection: On Social Justice Cinema in the #BlackLivesMatter Era \u003cbr\u003e Maryann Erigha Lawer\u003cbr\u003e 21. . . . Making Movie Generations: On the Cultural Work of Hollywood Remaking \u003cbr\u003e Kathleen Loock\u003cbr\u003e 22. . . . Reaching Unlettered Audiences: On Global Blockbuster Cinema and Its Oral Affinities \u003cbr\u003e Sheila J. Nayar\u003cbr\u003e 23. . . . Love of Community and Reality: On André Bazin and the Good of Cinema \u003cbr\u003e Dudley Andrew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART SIX. MEDIAL GOODS \u003cbr\u003e 24. . . . Projection and Protection: On Cinemagoing as Playing Hide-and-Seek with Reality \u003cbr\u003e Francesco Casetti\u003cbr\u003e 25. . . . An Animated and Animating Medium: On Hegel,Adorno, and the Good of Film \u003cbr\u003e Nicholas Baer\u003cbr\u003e 26. . . . The Bigger Picture: On Watching Films on a Cinema Screen \u003cbr\u003e Martine Beugnet\u003cbr\u003e 27. . . . Quality Time: On Resisting What’s Next, or Staying with the Credits \u003cbr\u003e Tiago de Luca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART SEVEN. UNSETTLED GOODS \u003cbr\u003e 28. . . . Wanton Destruction: On Cinema’s Antisocial Thrills \u003cbr\u003e Adrian Martin\u003cbr\u003e 29. . . . Alienating Interventions: On What the “Bad” in David Lynch’s Films Is “Good” For \u003cbr\u003e Annie van den Oever and Dominique Chateau\u003cbr\u003e 30. . . . Dangerous Situations: On Whether Cinema Is Poisonous \u003cbr\u003e Michel Chion\u003cbr\u003e 31. . . . Good for Nothing? On How Films Help Us through the Night \u003cbr\u003e Tom Gunning\u003cbr\u003e 32. . . . Medium-Sized Matters: On Whether Cinema Has Made Any Difference \u003cbr\u003e Mark Cousins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword by Radu Jude \u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402959561047,"sku":"9780520386808","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520386808.jpg?v=1730481968","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-film-is-good-for-9780520386808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}