A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television is a response to a significant increase of judgment and judgmentalism in contemporary television, film, and social media by investigating the changing relations between the aesthetics and ethics of judgment.

"Film and Media Studies has tended to shy away from the idea of judgement but, as this collection of essays edited by Panse and Rothermel makes clear, judgement is an integral aspect of how film and media works. Judgement is a two way street we judge what we see on the screen and in turn it judges us. This outstanding collection explores in depth the practical and theoretical issues raised by the problem of judgement." Ian Buchanan, University of Wollongong, Australia

"This collection not only documents in manifold ways how judging and judgment permeates the production and reception of contemporary moving images, which Kant's Critique of Judgment never could have predicted. It also initiates the reader into exactly this philosophy in an extremely elegant and informed way." - Diedrich Diederichsen, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

Autorentext
Anita Biressi, University of Roehampton, UK André Brasil, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Lynn Houston, State University of New York, Orange, USA Jon Kear, University of Kent, UK Cezar Migliorin, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Heather Nunn, University of Roehampton, UK Silke Panse, University for the Creative Arts, UK Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico, USA Teresa Rizzo, University of Sydney, Australia Richard Rushton, University of Lancaster, UK Alan Singer, Temple University in Philadelphia, USA Brian Winston, University of Lincoln, UK Bev Zalcock, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Inhalt

1. Judgment between Ethics and Aesthetics: An Introduction; Silke Panse and Dennis Rothermel PART I: JUDGMENT IN FACTUAL TELEVISION 2. The Judging Spectator in the Image; Silke Panse 3. The Tones of Judgment in Local Evening News; Dennis Rothermel 4. 'I'm Passionate, Lord Sugar:' Young Entrepreneurs, Critical Judgment and Emotional Labor in Young Apprentice ; Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn PART II: JUDGING DOCUMENTARY IMAGES 5. Amateur Biopolitics: Generalization of a Practice, Limits of a Concept; André Brasil and Cezar Migliorin 6. Peirce's Better Triad; Brian Winston 7. A Judgment on Judgment: Miloevi? On Trial ; Jon Kear PART III: JUDGMENT AND UNIVERSALITY 8. Screen Truth; Claire Colebrook 9. Judging Cinema: Peter Greenaway's Visual J'accuse ; Alan Singer 10. Cinematic Judgment and Universal Communicability: On Benjamin and Kant with Metz; Richard Rushton PART IV: DISAPPEARED SUBJECTS AND SUPERNATURAL JUDGMENT 11. Constructing the Non-Judgmental Event: Bruno Ganz's Affective Ethics in Knife in the Head and in The White City ; Colin Gardner 12. Judgment and the Disappeared Subject in The Headless Woman ; Bev Zalcock 13. Without Judgment: A Feminist Reading of the Immanent Ethics and Aesthetics in Morvern Callar ; Teresa Rizzo 14. Biting Critiques: Paranormal Romance and Moral Judgment in True Blood , Twilight , and The Vampire Diaries ; Lynn Marie Houston