Film and the Ethical Imagination

This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that im

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Film and the Ethical Imagination

Asbjørn Grønstad

Film and the Ethical Imagination

Asbjørn Grønstad Department of Information Science and Media Studies University of Bergen Bergen, Norway

ISBN 978-1-137-58373-4 ISBN 978-1-137-58374-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58374-1

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For my father John Grønstad 1949–2014 In loving memory.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book emerges out of a larger research program undertaken under the auspices of the Nomadikon project “New Ecologies of the Image” at the University of Bergen 2008–2013. As both director of the project and author of this work, I would like to express my gratitude to the Bergen Research Foundation, without whose generous support the Nomadikon project, now The Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture, would not have been possible. I would also like to thank the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen for co-funding Nomadikon, and the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, in particular its chair Leif Ove Larsen, for providing such an excellent environment for our work. As a research center Nomadikon is dedicated to studies of the relation between ethics and the field of visual culture, and this book is just one of several projects that have examined questions pertaining to this fraught nexus. Film and the Ethical Imagination also represents the continuation of an abiding inter

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