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Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474454322)
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xThis 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.
Author: Wyatt Moss-Wellington
ISBN-10: 1474454321
ISBN-13: 9781474454322
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2021
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d
By Wyatt Moss-Wellington
xWyatt 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).
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