A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value
Edited by
Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli
This edition first published 2022
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hjort, Mette, author. | Nannicelli, Ted, author.
Title: A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value / edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli.
Description: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021027310 (print) | LCCN 2021027311 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119677116 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119677130 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119677079 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119677123 (epub) | ISBN 9781119677154 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Motion pictures and public interest.
Classification: LCC PN1995.9.P7855 C66 2021 (print) | LCC PN1995.9.P7855 (ebook) | DDC 791.43/655--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021027310 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021027311
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Contents
1 Cover
8 Part I Artistic and Aesthetic ValueIntroduction1 A Plurality of Values: Art, Fine Art, and Motion Pictures2 Public Aesthetics and Artistic Value in Iranian Cinema3 Appreciating Nature through Film: A Defense of Mediated Appreciation4 Reframing the Director: Distributed Creativity in Filmmaking Practice
9 Part II Moral Value/Ethical ValueIntroduction5 Screen Stories as “Imaginative Ecology”: A Thought Experiment6 Interactive Documentary and Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Representativeness7 The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects Their Value8 Film Production and Ethical Criticism9 Emotion and the Cultivation of Ethical Attention in Narrative Cinema
10 Part III Spiritual ValueIntroduction10 Abundant, at Ease and Expansive?: The Influence of Māori and Polynesian Spirituality on 21st Century New Zealand Motion Pictures11 Secularity, Transcendence, and Film12 The Poetics of Karma: Reincarnation and Romance
11 Part IV Environmental /Ecological ValueIntroduction13 Ecocinema and Ecological Value14 From Content to Context (and Back Again): New Industrial Strategies for Environmental Sustainability in