Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Yet far from being at odds with each other, both approaches offer important insights on our subjective experience of cinema. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive by addressing the key relationship between cinematic experience, emotions, and ethics.

Preface
List of illustrations

Introduction: Phenomenology Encounters Cognitivism
Robert Sinnerbrink

Chapter 1. Fascist Affect in 300
Carl Plantinga

Chapter 2. Other Sides: Loving and Grieving with Heart of a Dog and Merleau-Ponty's Depth
Saige Walton

Chapter 3. Elemental Imagination and Film Experience: Climate Change and the Cinematic Ethics of Immersive Filmworlds
Ludo de Roo

Chapter 4. Toward a Model of Distributed Affectivity for Cinematic Ethics: Ethical Experience, Trauma, and History
Brigid Martin

Chapter 5. Grey Gardens and the Problem of Objectivity: Notes on the Ethics of Observational Documentary
Mathew Abbott

Chapter 6. Synthetic Beings and Synthespian Ethics: Embodiment Technologies in Science/Fiction
Jane Stadler