Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvDan Flory,Dan (Montana State University) Flory

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In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir to black American cinema. This book is the first to examine these artistic innovations in detail from a philosophical perspective informed by both cognitive film theory and critical race theory.Dan Flory explores the techniques and themes that are used in black film noir to orchestrate the audience’s emotions of sympathy and empathy felt toward morally complex characters whom people might not typically find appealing in real life, such as thugs, drug dealers, or murderers. Using an approach that combines the cognitive insights of theorists like David Bordwell, Noël Carroll, and Murray Smith with the reflective Wittgensteinian methods for considering film employed by Stanley Cavell, Stephen Mulhall, and William Rothman, Flory shows how these films scrutinize the state of race in America, induce their viewers to do so as well, and illuminate the ways in which categories of race have defined and continue to direct much of our vision of the moral self and what counts as appropriate moral sensibility.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-08-15
Mått152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271033457

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ContentsIllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Philosophy and the Blackness of Film NoirRecent Philosophical Theories of RacePhilosophy, Cognition, and Film TheoryWhat Is Black Film?What Is Film Noir?Film Noir's Subversive PossibilitiesWhat Is Black Noir?1.Spike Lee and the Sympathetic RacistWhoand WhatIs Sal?Critical Reflection and Sympathetic RacistsSpike Lee and Institutional Racism2.Noir Protagonists and Empathy in Do the Right ThingMoral Ambiguity, Suspense, and Noir CharacterizationHitchcockian "Subjective Suspense" and the Spectrum of Noir CharactersDo the Right Thing and Noir CharacterizationEmpathy for Radio Raheem?Mookie AgonistesDa Mayor and Moral OrientationCritical Reflection and the Role of Empathy in Do the Right Thing3.Race and Tragedy in One False MoveA Hurricane of Sympathy and RacismRacism, Tragedy, and EmpathyAlignment, Point of View, and Empathetic Response to LilaSympathetic Racists and Audience Allegiance in Black and White4.Nihilism and Knowledge in ClockersCultivating Empathy for a ClockerInternalized Racism in Teaching and ExplanationOppression and Alternative PossibilitiesRocco Klein as Sympathetic Racist CopSympathy and How to Do the Right ThingAesthetic Response, Race, and Black Noir5."Guilty of Blackness"Flawed Noir Narratives: New Jack City and Boyz 'N the HoodRacial Oppression and Personal Psychology: Juice Menace II Society and the Meaning of LifeBlack Noir, Nihilism, and Film as Philosophy6.Beyond the GangstaWorking for "the Man": Deep CoverNarrative Voice and Epistemic AuthorityLearning from the Logic of White PowerJerry Carver, Pimp for White PowerMaking a Difference EpistemologicallyAgainst Self-Interest: The Glass ShieldRace and the Noir Lessons of History: Devil in a Blue DressBlack Noir Moves Beyond the Gangsta7.Other Forms of BlacknessEve's Bayou and Its Critical ReceptionFilm Noir and Female Gothic MelodramaEve's Gothic Noir WorldNoir, Empathy, and African-American Female CharactersWhat Is It Like To Be a Caveman?The Injustice of the Everyday: Always Outnumbered, Always OutgunnedTraining Day, Empathy, and Moral Corruption8.Noir and BeyondWhite Fears of the Other: Summer of SamTranscending Human Differences in 8 MileThe Evolving Racial Contract: Out of Time and Never Die AloneBamboozled by BlackfaceA Noir Atlantic: From Hell, Empire, City of God, Dirty Pretty Things, The Constant Gardener, Catch A Fire, and Children of MenConclusion: Race, Film Noir, and Philosophical ReflectionCavellian Individualities and Film as PhilosophyA Taxonomy of Empathy and Expanding Moral ImaginationIndex

“The darkness of film noir was always meant to illuminate as well as reflect the shadows of the mean streets of Gangland USA. Now, in this fascinating synthesis of philosophy, film studies, and critical race theory, Dan Flory reveals to us the significance of the deeper blackness of African American noir—a light ‘doubly’ black aimed at exposing the larger crimes of White America itself.”—Charles W. Mills, Northwestern University, Author of The Racial Contract