Details

Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—Social aspects [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.

Notes

Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

Contents: List of Illustrations - Series Editor's Foreword - List of Contributors - Introduction to Cinema, Media, and Human Flourishing - Timothy Corrigan - Part I:Cinematic Quests for Human Value - 1. The Lost Optimism of Modern Movie Fairytales - Angus Fletcher - 2. Media-ting Happiness - Lucy Fischer - 3. Human Flourishing, Philosophical Naturalism, and Aesthetic Value - Murray Smith - 4. Cinema and Creative Community - Dudley Andrew - Part II:Human Flourishing on the Margins of the Frame - 5. Fiendish Devices: Human Flourishing and the Black Watching Subject - Ellen C. Scott - 6. Human Relationship as Human Value in Studio-Era Hollywood - Dana Polan - 7. Sentimental Miseducation: Women Directors Coming of Age - Patricia White - 8. Learning to Adapt: From Pathology to Splendor - Timothy Corrigan - 9. Austerity Media and Human Flourishing - Patrice Petro - Index

ISBN

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

OCLC

1352405840

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