Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience : New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Yet far from being at odds with each other, both approaches offer important insights on our subjective experience of cinema. __Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience__ explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive by addressing the key relationship between cinematic experience, emotions, and ethics. Contents Illustrations Preface Introduction: Phenomenology Encounters Cognitivism Chapter 1 Fascist Affect in 300 Chapter 2 Other Sides Loving and Grieving with Heart of a Dog and Merleau-Ponty’s Depth Chapter 3 Elemental Imagination and Film Experience: Climate Change and the Cinematic Ethics of Immersive Filmworlds Chapter 4 Toward a Model of Distributed Affectivity for Cinematic Ethics Ethical Experience, Trauma, and History Chapter 5 Grey Gardens and the Problem of Objectivity: Notes on the Ethics of Observational Documentary Chapter 6 Synthetic Beings and Synthespian Ethics: Embodiment Technologies in Science/Fiction Index "Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Yet far from being at odds with each other, both approaches offer important insights on our subjective experience of cinema. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive by addressing the key relationship between cinematic experience, emotions, and ethics."--Page 4 de la couverture

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Yet far from being at odds with each other, both approaches offer important insights on our subjective experience of cinema. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive by addressing the key relationship between cinematic experience, emotions, and ethics.