Narrative Humanism

Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film

Wyatt Moss-Wellington (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5431-5 (ISBN)

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This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questioning the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent human social complexity in fiction.
With case studies of films like Parenthood (1989), American Beauty (1999), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and The Kids Are All Right (2010), this original study synthesises leading discourses on media and cognition, evolutionary anthropology, literature and film analysis into a new theory of the storytelling instinct.

Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Associate Professor in Media and Culture at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is the author of Cognitive Film and Media Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2021), Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and co-editor with Kim Wilkins of ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Moss-Wellington is also a progressive folk multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, and has released four studio albums: The Kinder We (2017), Sanitary Apocalypse (2014), Gen Y Irony Stole My Heart (2011) and The Supermarket and the Turncoat (2009).

Acknowledgements

PART I: Humanist Hermeneutics

Introduction

CH1: Reading the Human Drama in Film and Fiction　

PART II: Social Narratology　

CH2: Foundational Functions of Fiction

CH3: Affective Functions of Fiction

CH4: Connectedness and Character

CH5: Mental Work and Memory

CH6: Ethics and Conclusions　

PART III: Genre Case Study: The Suburban Ensemble Dramedy　

CH7: An Introduction to the Millennial Suburban Ensemble Film

CH8: Discussions: Affect, Sociopolitics and the Ensemble Narrative　

PART IV: Close Reading Case Study: Parenthood　

CH9: Parenthood: A Humanistic Close Reading

Afterword

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	538 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-5431-3 / 1474454313
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5431-5 / 9781474454315
Zustand	Neuware