Contemporary Screen Ethics

Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew

Lucy Bolton, David Martin-Jones, Robert Sinnerbrink

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Edinburgh University Press
01 March 2025

Film theory & criticism

Contemporary Screen Ethics focuses on the intertwining of the ethical with the socio-political, considering such topics as: care, decolonial feminism, ecology, histories of political violence, intersectionality, neoliberalism, race, and sexual and gendered violence.

The collection advocates looking anew at the global complexity and diversity of such ethical issues across various screen media: from Netflix movies to VR, from Chinese romcoms to Brazilian pornochanchadas, from documentaries to drone warfare, from Jordan Peele movies to Google Earth. The analysis exposes the ethical tension between the inclusions and exclusions of global structural inequality (the identities of the haves, the absences of the have nots), alongside the need to understand our collective belonging to the planet demanded by the climate crisis. Informing the analysis, established thinkers like Deleuze, Irigaray, Jameson and Ranciere are joined by an array of different voices

Ferreira da Silva, Gill, Lugones, Milroy, Muoz, Sheshadri-Crooks, Verges

to unlock contemporary screen ethics.

Edited by: Lucy Bolton, David Martin-Jones, Robert Sinnerbrink
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474447614
ISBN 10: 1474447619
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lucy Bolton is Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women (2011) and Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (2019, EUP) as well as the co-editor of Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure (2016). She is co-series editor of EUP's Visionaries series. David Martin-Jones is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Glasgow. Robert Sinnerbrink is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney.

Reviews for Contemporary Screen Ethics: Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew

In this brilliantly curated collection of essays, scholars from around the world discuss ways in which cinemas today negotiate - and sometimes, failure to address - traumas, corporeality, renewed relationships with our environment, caring, and empathy. It opens new opportunities for us to rethink what cinema and film philosophy have done, and how they can be deterritorialised and reterritorialised today.--Victor Fan, King's College London Walking away from our despondency fuelled by watching worlds ruined and abandoned on screens, this timely collection assembled by the most rigorous of film philosophers and theorists infuses a renewal of enchantment in the worlds of cinema and the cinemas of the world.--Lalitha Gopalan, The University of Texas at Austin