[Commlist] New book: "What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship"

NEW EDITED VOLUME

JULIAN HANICH & MARTIN P. ROSSOUW (eds.)
What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship

Oakland: University of California Press, 2023

*Table of Contents*

Acknowledgments

Foreword by MIKE FIGGIS

Introduction: Film Ethics as Delivering the Goods

MARTIN P. ROSSOUW & JULIAN HANICH

*1. Adaptive Goods*

… A Portal to Another World: On Cinema, Climate Change, and a Good 
Apocalypse

JENNIFER FAY

… Scaling Down: On the Unsustainable Pleasure of Large-File Streaming

LAURA U. MARKS

… It’s Invaluable: On Film Spectatorship in the Era of Covid-19

SARAH COOPER

… Stabilities and Mobilities: On the Generic Values of Emplacements, 
Displacements, and Outplacements

TIMOTHY CORRIGAN

*2. Empathic Goods*

… Lies, Loops, or Liberation: On the Dis/Obedience of Feeling More

MICHELE AARON

… Public Engagement: On Postcolonial African Cinema’s Critical Value

LITHEKO MODISANE

… Shedding Light on Abject Lives: On Global Cinema as Ethical Art

SEUNG-HOON JEONG

… Empathy: On Its Limitations and Liabilities

MALCOLM TURVEY

… Political Impact: On the Societal Vibrancy of Film

JENS EDER

*3. Sensitive Goods*

... Moral Reflection: On the Reflective Afterlife of Screen Stories

CARL PLANTINGA & GARRETT STRPKO

… Challenge and Discomfort: On Situated Elitist Pleasures in Art and 
Indie Film

GEOFF KING

… Heterocosmic Connections: On the Many Worlds and World-Values of Cinema

DANIEL YACAVONE

… Depth of Experience: On Early Phenomenology and the Value of Boredom 
in the Cinema

CHRISTIAN FERENCZ-FLATZ

… Striking Beauty: On Recuperating the Beautiful in Cinema

JULIAN HANICH

*4. Reviving Goods*

… Wondering Offscreen: On Cinema’s Transformations of Our Relation to 
the Unseen

JAIMIE BARON

… Coming to Wonder: On Cinema’s Renewal of Vision

CATHERINE WHEATLEY

… Moral Improvement: On How Watching Films Might Make Us Better People

THOMAS E. WARTENBERG

… Cinematic Ethics: On Film as Transformative Experience

ROBERT SINNERBRINK

… Spiritual Exercises Before a Screen: On ‘Film as Philosophy’ and Its 
Transformational Ethics

MARTIN P. ROSSOUW

*5. Communal Goods*

… Remembrance and Reflection: On Social Justice Cinema in the 
#BlackLivesMatter Era

MARYANN ERIGHA LAWER

… Making Movie Generations: On the Cultural Work of Hollywood Remaking

KATHLEEN LOOCK

… Reaching Unlettered Audiences: On Global Blockbuster Cinema and Its 
Oral Affinities

SHEILA J. NAYAR

… Love of Community and Reality: On André Bazin and the Good of Cinema

DUDLEY ANDREW

*6. Medial Goods*

… Projection and Protection: On Cinemagoing as Playing Hide and Seek 
with Reality

FRANCESCO CASETTI

… An Animated and Animating Medium: On Hegel, Adorno, and the Good of Film

NICHOLAS BAER

… The Bigger Picture: On Watching Films on a Cinema Screen

MARTINE BEUGNET

… Quality Time: On Resisting What’s Next, or Staying with the Credits

TIAGO DE LUCA

*7. Unsettled Goods*

… Wanton Destruction: On Cinema’s Anti-Social Thrills

ADRIAN MARTIN

… Alienating Interventions: On What the ‘Bad’ in David Lynch’s Films Is 
‘Good’ For

ANNIE VAN DEN OEVER & DOMINIQUE CHATEAU

… Dangerous Situations: On Whether Cinema Is Poisonous

MICHEL CHION

… Good for Nothing?: On How Films Help Us Through the Night

TOM GUNNING

… Medium-Sized Matters: On Whether Cinema Has Made Any Difference

MARK COUSINS

Afterword by RADU JUDE

Notes on Contributors

Index

"/What Film Is Good For/ is a wonderfully ambitious and timely 
collection that takes the form, in a sense, of a questionnaire—one that 
importantly does not seek or need a singular response to the question it 
asks, as if film could only be good in one way or for one thing, or 
simply not at all. The diversity of responses collected here is itself a 
profound lesson in how capacious a moral claim need be if moral it truly 
is."—BRIAN PRICE, author of /A Theory of Regret/

"Whether one agrees with the writers' propositions, the pleasure of 
thinking through the claims, pondering these questions of worth, value, 
profit, loss, the many 'good fors' as well as the occasional 'not good 
for,' is a good, indeed, an excellence in itself, opening to a vast and 
valuable conversation."—JANET STAIGER, author of /Interpreting Films: 
Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema/ and /Perverse 
Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception/

"Their volume bookended by two marvelous pieces by filmmakers (Mike 
Figgis and Radu Jude), Julian Hanich and Martin Rossouw have assembled a 
peerless group of contributors to explore a wide range of compelling 
questions about film ethics and the value(s) of spectatorship. The 
result is a foundational volume for Screen Studies."—CATHERINE GRANT, 
founding author of /Film Studies for Free/

For more information, go to:

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520386815/what-film-is-good-for
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