How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional
involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically …

The volume aims at taking the materiality of past media devices seriously and explores the
heuristic possibilities of an experimental study of these devices. It offers a sophisticated …

Within the loose group of studies that are sometimes labelled Heideggerian cinema–studies
in which scholars consider film in conjunction with Heidegger's philosophy–little attention …

What is 'the good'of the film experience? And how does the budding field of 'film as
philosophy'answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw …

In this chapter, the author explores the question of documentary cinema and ecological
value, examining the ways in which recent documentaries approach the question of …

In this article, I explore three films that comprise Swedish director Roy Andersson's “Living
Trilogy”–Songs from the Second Floor (2000); You, the Living (2007); and A Pigeon Sat on a …

This chapter focuses on the representation of religion and spirituality in film as an agential
factor in inter‐cultural politics in New Zealand, and on the public value that Māori and …

This article provides a much-needed continuation of the discussion of mood in narrative
cinema. Whereas the dominant accounts of mood and cinema are interested in how films …

Abstract This article puts Werner Herzog's films in dialogue with Martin Heidegger's
philosophy to answer the question of how to dwell, to be at home with nature. I argue that an …