Cinematic Ethics : Exploring Ethical Experience Through Film (Paperback)

Preface I Cinema and/as Ethics 1. Cinematic Ethics: Film as a Medium of Ethical Experience II Philosophical Approaches to Cinematic Ethics 2. From Scepticism to Moral Perfectionism (Cavell) 3. From Cinematic Belief to Ethics and Politics (Deleuze) 4. Cinempathy: Phenomenology, Cognitivism, and Moving Images III Performing Cinematic Ethics 5. The Moral Melodrama (Stella Dallas, Talk to Her) 6. Melodrama, Realism, and Ethical Experience (Biutiful, The Promise) 7. Gangster Film: Cinematic Ethics in The Act of Killing Conclusion Appendix 1. Annotated Bibliography Appendix 2. Filmography Index