[Commlist] Call Cinema: Film and Ethics

*/Cinema/** 11: Call for Papers*

*FILM AND ETHICS*

Edited by Patrícia Castello Branco (Ifilnova) and Susana Viegas (Ifilnova)



<http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/>

/Cinema - Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 
<http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/>/<http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/>welcomes 
submissions to its 11^th  issue on */Film and Ethics/.*

This issue will be dedicated to explore film as a medium of ethical 
experience.

A special focus will be given to enquire film’s aesthetic/ethical 
relationship: film’s path from normative ethics to applied ethics; the 
extent to which aesthetic form, or style, determine ethical meaning; the 
way it instigates ethical understandings and cultural-political 
awareness and how it involves ethical/political statements.

Exploring the issue of film and//ethics also provides a rich way of 
revisiting the legacy of film theory, especially with regard to cinema’s 
ideological and political dimensions, since film’s aesthetics and ethics 
have always enjoyed a close, if sometimes troubled, relationship. 
Examples can be found in such different developments such as Jean 
Epstein’s notion of the ‘enhanced moral value’ of /photogenie/; the 
political and moral capacities of montage by Eisenstein; Kracauer’s and 
André Bazin’s moral and aesthetic realism, /Cinéma Verité’s/ concerns 
about the ethics of the medium and its claimed objectivity; documentary 
film’s ethical enquires on ‘realism’; Jean Luc-Godard’s famous statement 
‘/les travellings sont affaire de morale’ /(‘tracking shots are a 
question of morality’), and Werner Herzog’s notion of Ecstatic truth. On 
the other hand, the films of Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, Michael 
Haneke, or the New French Extremism, are recent examples of ethical 
experiences done /against/ ethics itself.

The very same insight of the intricate relationship between aesthetics 
and ethics in film can be found in philosophy. Stanley Cavell’s books on 
popular film genres forays into finding a means to articulate the ethics 
of everyday life, and we can find in Gilles Deleuze’s book on cinema 
deep readings on the ethics of the aesthetics of the films of Dreyer, 
Bresson, Rossellini, Rohmer, Godard, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi. Levinas’ 
philosophy has being used to evaluate the ethical encounter with the 
‘Other’; and phenomenological approaches to cinematic ethics have been 
stressing the emotional engagement, embodied experience, and moral 
empathy produced by film’s aesthetics and content.

This issue of /Cinema – Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image/, 
will privilege essays that endorse the perspective of film /as /ethics. 
Studies on the ethics /of/ film, or on ethics /in/ film will also be 
accepted.

Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

  * Aesthetics as ethics (example: ethical meaning of montage, long
    takes, deep focus, etc.);
  * The moral and political significance of aesthetics in film;
  * Phenomenological approaches to film’s ethics: emotional engagement,
    embodied experience, and moral empathy;
  * Philosophy, ethics and film (ex: Lacan, Foucault, Levinas, Derrida,
    Ricoeur, Badiou, etc.);
  * Philosophical views on the aesthetic/ethic relationship (Kant,
    Plato, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Nussbaum, etc.);
  * Agamben’s view on /Gesture/ in cinema: its political and ethical
    consequences;
  * Deleuze’s modes of existence;
  * The ethical and moral dynamic of the classical Hollywood film
    genres: the melodrama, the western, etc.;
  * Film’s use for moral pedagogy or for political propaganda and
    censorship;
  * Film criticism and values;
  * The ethics of ‘objectivity’ and ‘truth’ in documentaries;
  * Technology and ethics in different recording and/or exhibition
    formats: digital versus analogical film; movie theatre, personal
    transportable devices, TV, internet, etc.
  *

Submissions are accepted in English, Portuguese and French and should be 
sent to Patrícia Castello Branco <mailto:(ps.castellobranco /at/ gmail.com)> or 
Susana Viegas <mailto:(susanarainhoviegas /at/ gmail.com)>.

Prospective authors should submit a short CV along with the abstract. 
Abstract proposals (max. 500 words) are due on March 8th, 2019, and a 
notice of acceptance will be sent to the authors on March 15th, 2019.

A selection of authors will be invited to submit full papers according 
to the journal’s guidelines. Acceptance of the abstract does not 
guarantee publication, since all papers will be subjected to double 
blind peer-review.

For further information or questions about the issue, please contact the 
Editors Patrícia Castello Branco <mailto:(ps.castellobranco /at/ gmail.com)> or 
Susana Viegas <mailto:(susanarainhoviegas /at/ gmail.com)>.

Cinema also invites submissions to its other sections: Interviews, 
Conference Reports and Book Reviews. Please consult the _web site_ 
<http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/> of the journal for further details.

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