A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value

Edited by

Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli

This edition first published 2022

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Names: Hjort, Mette, author. | Nannicelli, Ted, author.

Title: A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value / edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli.

Description: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021027310 (print) | LCCN 2021027311 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119677116 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119677130 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119677079 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119677123 (epub) | ISBN 9781119677154 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Motion pictures and public interest.

Classification: LCC PN1995.9.P7855 C66 2021 (print) | LCC PN1995.9.P7855 (ebook) | DDC 791.43/655--dc23

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1 Cover

2 Title page A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value Edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Acknowledgments

6 Biographical Notes

7 General Introduction

8 Part I Artistic and Aesthetic Value Introduction 1 A Plurality of Values: Art, Fine Art, and Motion Pictures 2 Public Aesthetics and Artistic Value in Iranian Cinema 3 Appreciating Nature through Film: A Defense of Mediated Appreciation 4 Reframing the Director: Distributed Creativity in Filmmaking Practice

9 Part II Moral Value/Ethical Value Introduction 5 Screen Stories as “Imaginative Ecology”: A Thought Experiment 6 Interactive Documentary and Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Representativeness 7 The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects Their Value 8 Film Production and Ethical Criticism 9 Emotion and the Cultivation of Ethical Attention in Narrative Cinema

10 Part III Spiritual Value Introduction 10 Abundant, at Ease and Expansive?: The Influence of Māori and Polynesian Spirituality on 21st Century New Zealand Motion Pictures 11 Secularity, Transcendence, and Film 12 The Poetics of Karma: Reincarnation and Romance

11 Part IV Environmental /Ecological Value Introduction 13 Ecocinema and Ecological Value 14 From Content to Context (and Back Again): New Industrial Strategies for Environmental Sustainability in the Media 15 Jordnær Creative: A Danish Case Study of Green Filmmaking and Sustainable Production

12 Part V Cultural, Social and Political Value Introduction 16 Color Charts: A Cultural Chronicle of Non-Chinese Ethnic Images in Hong Kong Cinema 17 Film Policy, Social Value, and the Mediating Role of Screen Agencies 18 Cinema as Ceilidh and Hui: The Place of the Audience within Emergent Perspectives upon a Folk Cinema 19 The Past and Future of Public Value: The End of an Illustrious Career or Its Reinvention?

13 Part VI Cognitive, Educational, and Developmental Value Introduction 20 Representing the Redacted: Depicting the “Torture Archetype” in Film 21 Negotiating Power through Art: Participatory Video and Public Value 22 Virtual Reality and the Rhetoric of Empathy

14 Part VII The Value of Health Introduction 23 Narrative Sense-Making in the Service of Health— A Neurocinematic Approach 24 The Smoking Machine: Public Health Films and Public Value in Britain and Denmark, 1950–1964 25 The Benefits of Genre: Feel-Good Films as a Path to Health and Well-Being 26 Movies in the Closed Wards: Instruments of Mental Health in Military Psychiatry

15 Index

16 End User License Agreement

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