Screen Stories and Moral Understanding

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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by Carl Plantinga

Type

Studies

Subject

Theory

Keywords

philosophy, ethics, morality

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 264 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-766567-1

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Book Presentation:
• Features the work of top scholars from philosophy, communication, media psychology, and film and media studies
• Includes chapters by some of the leading scholars on how screen stories can generate moral understanding
• Offers new insights into the role of screen stories in the modern world

The stories we tell and show, in whatever medium, play varied roles in human cultures. One such role is to contribute to moral understanding. Moral understanding goes beyond moral knowledge; it is a complex cognitive achievement that may consist of one or more of the following: the ability to understand why, to ask the right questions, categorization, the application of models to specific incidents, or the capacity to make connections between morally charged situations that have a common underlying meaning.

While the disciplines of communication, psychology, philosophy, and film and media studies have all made significant scholarly progress on this issue, they make different grounding assumptions and use different terminologies. Screen Stories and Moral Understanding approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective and explores the conditions under which stories we view on screens-movies, streamed series, and television-can lead to moral understanding in viewers.

In five sections, this book explores the nature of moral understanding in relation to screen stories, the means by which moving image fictions can transfer knowledge to and cultivate perspectives in viewers, the role of affect in generating moral understanding, the viewer's engagement with characters, and what we do with screen stories after viewing them.

About the Author:
Carl Plantinga, Senior Research Fellow, Calvin University Carl Plantinga is Senior Research Fellow at Calvin University. Among his books are Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (2018) and Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience (2009).

See the publisher website: Oxford University Press