Transformational Ethics of Film: Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philosophy Debate

✍ Scribed by Martin P. Rossouw

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series
• Edition: 365
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ethics at work within the ‘film as philosophy’ debate. Whenever philosophers claim that films can do philosophy, they also persistently put forward edifying practical effects – potential transformations of thought and experience – as the benefit of viewing such films. Through rigorous appraisals of key arguments, and with reference to the cinema of Terrence Malick, Rossouw pieces together the idea of an inner makeover through cinema – a cinemakeover – which casts a distinct vision of film spectatorship as a practice of self-transformation.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction
Pages: 1–18

Chapter 1 ‘Going Meta’ on Film as Philosophy: Opening Up the Field
Pages: 19–60

Chapter 2 When Philosophers Join Fight Club: A Framework for Transformational Ethics of Film
Pages: 61–109

Chapter 3 Slogans for Self-Transformation:How Films Are Thought to Do More Than ‘Think’
Pages: 110–206

Chapter 4 There’s Something about Malick: From Contemplative Style to Ethics of Transformation
Pages: 207–246

Chapter 5 Concluding Thoughts: On Detective Work and Wearing Different Hats
Pages: 247–262

Bibliography

Index