Narrative Humanism

Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film

AvWyatt Moss-Wellington

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questioning the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent human social complexity in fiction. With case studies of films like Parenthood (1989), American Beauty (1999), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and The Kids Are All Right (2010), this original study synthesises leading discourses on media and cognition, evolutionary anthropology, literature and film analysis into a new theory of the storytelling instinct.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:394 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474454322

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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Associate Professor in Media and Culture at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is the author of Cognitive Film and Media Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2021), Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and co-editor with Kim Wilkins of ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Moss-Wellington is also a progressive folk multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, and has released four studio albums: The Kinder We (2017), Sanitary Apocalypse (2014), Gen Y Irony Stole My Heart (2011) and The Supermarket and the Turncoat (2009).

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The book’s unique approach brings biological and cultural explanations of human behavior together around hermeneutics, ethics, and the social functions of narrative. [...] In enacting the ethical attention to cinema that it promotes, Narrative Humanism makes an original and welcome contribution to fi lm-philosophy.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsPART I: Humanist HermeneuticsIntroductionCH1: Reading the Human Drama in Film and Fiction　PART II: Social Narratology　CH2: Foundational Functions of FictionCH3: Affective Functions of FictionCH4: Connectedness and CharacterCH5: Mental Work and MemoryCH6: Ethics and Conclusions　PART III: Genre Case Study: The Suburban Ensemble Dramedy　CH7: An Introduction to the Millennial Suburban Ensemble FilmCH8: Discussions: Affect, Sociopolitics and the Ensemble Narrative　PART IV: Close Reading Case Study: Parenthood　CH9: Parenthood: A Humanistic Close ReadingAfterwordBibliography