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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carl Plantinga (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Calvin University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 15.90cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9780197665671ISBN 10: 0197665675 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 10 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCarl 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |