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Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—Social aspects [Browse]
• Happiness [Browse]
• Human beings—Philosophy [Browse]

Editor

• Corrigan, Timothy, 1951- [Browse]

Series

• Oxford Academic [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarship online

Summary note

The range of topics in this volume covers a multitude of historical periods and topics, which in turn figure in the new media environments of contemporary life. These include discussions of the Aristotelian and classical models of a "good life" that inform animated fairy tales today; 1930s French and Hollywood films which respond to the dire need for productive human relationships in a turbulent decade; the polemical positions of black film criticism through the lens of James Baldwin's work; a discussion of contemporary filmic quests for happiness; the challenges for women filmmakers today in mapping the values of their own world; landscapes of austerity and poverty in the cinematic homelands today; the scientific, psychological, and philosophical base for human value; and the shifting media frames of modern society and selves.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• The lost optimism of modern movie fairytales / Angus Fletcher
• Media-ting happiness / Lucy Fischer
• Human flourishing, philosophyical naturalism, and aesthetic value / Murray Smith
• Cinema and creative community / Dudley Andrew
• Fiendish devices: human flourishing and the Black watching subject / Ellen C. Scott
• Human relationship as human value in studio-era Hollywood / Dana Polan
• Sentimental miseducation: women directors coming of age / Patricia White
• Learning to adapt from pathology to splendor / Timothy Corrigan
• Austerity media and human flourishing / Patrice Petro.

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ISBN

• 0-19-762420-0
• 0-19-762421-9
• 0-19-762422-7

OCLC

1352405840

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