Contemporary Screen Ethics

Lucy Bolton is Professor of 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) and Contemporary Screen Ethics (2023, EUP). 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

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Absences, Identities, Belonging: Looking Anew at Screen Ethics - Lucy Bolton, David Martin-Jones, and Robert Sinnerbrink.Part 1 Histories and AbsencesDomestic Work, Gender, Race, Class and the Ethical Paradox of the Big House in Brazilian Cinema - Alessandra Soares Brandão and Ramayana Lira de SousaCinematic Ethics and a World of Cinemas: A Reason to Believe in this World’s History in in Hu Jie’s Wo sui si qu/Though I am Gone (2006) - David Martin-JonesMemory, Witnessing, and Reenactment: The Look of Silence, S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, and Cinematic Ethics - Robert SinnerbrinkPart 2 Bodies and IdentitiesBecoming Beyoncé: Disidentification and Racial Imaginaries - Tina ChanterRace, Bodies, and Altered Identities in Sleight and Us - Mary K. Bloodsworth-LugoPart 3 Love and BelongingA Planetary Whole for the Alienated. John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea Through Jameson and Deleuze - Jakob A. NilssonMermaids and Superpigs: Loving Nature Under Global Capitalism - Chelsea BirksDreaming of Joyce Vincent’s Life: Carol Morley’s Intersectional Ethics of Care - Lucy BoltonPart 4 Looking AnewEmpathy Machines, Indifference Engines, and Digital Extensions of Perception - Nick Jones　Do you see what I see? The Ethics of Seeing Race in Get Out - Berenike JungDon’t look away: Production-assemblages of rape culture in Midi Z’s Nina Wu - Jiaying Sim Notes on ContributorsIndex

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.