Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value

Mette Hjort is Chair Professor of Humanities, Department of Humanities & Creative Writing, and Dean of Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research spans the fields of film and media studies, literary studies, theatre studies, and philosophy. She has authored and edited numerous works including A Companion to Nordic Cinema. Ted Nannicelli is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia. He is the editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind and author of Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism.

• Acknowledgments xiBiographical Notes xiiGeneral Introduction 1Mette Hjort and Ted NannicelliPart I Artistic and Aesthetic Value 23Introduction 25Ted Nannicelli and Mette Hjort1 A Plurality of Values: Art, Fine Art, and Motion Pictures 30Paisley Livingston2 Public Aesthetics and Artistic Value in Iranian Cinema 46Khatereh Sheibani3 Appreciating Nature through Film: A Defense of Mediated Appreciation 69Glenn Parsons4 Reframing the Director: Distributed Creativity in Filmmaking Practice 86Karen Pearlman and John SuttonPart II Moral Value/Ethical Value 107Introduction 109Ted Nannicelli and Mette Hjort5 Screen Stories as “Imaginative Ecology”: A Thought Experiment 113Carl Plantinga6 Interactive Documentary and Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Representativeness 130Willemien Sanders7 The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects Their Value 148Mette Hjort8 Film Production and Ethical Criticism 171Ted Nannicelli9 Emotion and the Cultivation of Ethical Attention in Narrative Cinema 190Jane StadlerPart III Spiritual Value 209Introduction 211Ted Nannicelli and Mette Hjort10 Abundant, at Ease and Expansive?: The Influence of Māori and Polynesian Spirituality on 21st Century New Zealand Motion Pictures 213Ann Hardy11 Secularity, Transcendence, and Film 235Roy M. Anker12 The Poetics of Karma: Reincarnation and Romance 254Richard AllenPart IV Environmental /Ecological Value 279Introduction 281Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli13 Ecocinema and Ecological Value 285Robert Sinnerbrink14 From Content to Context (and Back Again): New Industrial Strategies for Environmental Sustainability in the Media 308Pietari Kääpä and Hunter Vaughan15 Jordnar Creative: A Danish Case Study of Green Filmmaking and Sustainable Production 327Anne Ahn Lund, Josefine Madsen, and Meryl Shriver-RicePart V Cultural, Social and Political Value 351Introduction 353Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli16 Color Charts: A Cultural Chronicle of Non-Chinese Ethnic Images in Hong Kong Cinema 357John Nguyet Erni17 Film Policy, Social Value, and the Mediating Role of Screen Agencies 382Ruth McElroy and Caitriona Noonan18 Cinema as Ceilidh and Hui: The Place of the Audience within Emergent Perspectives upon a Folk Cinema 401Jamie Chambers19 The Past and Future of Public Value: The End of an Illustrious Career or Its Reinvention? 427Tom O’Regan and Anna PotterPart VI Cognitive, Educational, and Developmental Value 445Introduction 447Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli20 Representing the Redacted: Depicting the “Torture Archetype” in Film 450Jared Del Rosso21 Negotiating Power through Art: Participatory Video and Public Value 469Paul Cooke22 Virtual Reality and the Rhetoric of Empathy 488Dooley MurphyPart VII The Value of Health 509Introduction 511Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli23 Narrative Sense-Making in the Service of Health—A Neurocinematic Approach 515Pia Tikka24 The Smoking Machine: Public Health Films and Public Value in Britain and Denmark, 1950–1964 536C. Claire Thomson25 The Benefits of Genre: Feel-Good Films as a Path to Health and Well-Being 558Mette Hjort26 Movies in the Closed Wards: Instruments of Mental Health in Military Psychiatry 576Kaia ScottIndex 597