Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics

by Jane Stadler

Book Overview

The most powerful films have an afterlife. Their sensory appeal and their capacity to elicit involvement in story, character and conflict reaches beyond the screen to subtly reframe the way spectators view ethical issues and agents within the narrative, and in the world outside the cinema. Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience and Narrative Film questions how cinematic narratives relate to and affect ethical life. Extending Martha Nussbaum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441163026
• ISBN13: 9781441163028
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"