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- Title
Toward a Model of Distributed Affectivity for Cinematic Ethics: Ethical Experience, Trauma, and History.
- Authors
Martin, Philip
- Abstract
Many contemporary applications of theories of affect to cinematic ethical experience focus on its consequences for empathy and moral allegiance. Such approaches have made advances in bridging phenomenological and cognitivist approaches to film-philosophy, but miss the importance of complex affects that problematize empathy and moral judgment. For example, the rendering of trauma in Aimless Bullet (Hyun-mok Yu, 1961) involves aesthetic shifts that reframe its depiction of postwar experience and build a complex emotional picture of sociopolitical conditions that affect individual and community life. In this article, I argue that to understand the ethical signifi cance of complex cinematic emotion we can develop an account of how affective-aesthetic affordances establish distributed spaces for dynamic affective engagement. To do this, I draw upon theories of scaffolded mind, classical Indian rasa aesthetics, and phenomenological aesthetics. This hybrid account will allow us to articulate the ways that fi lm can help us comprehend the ethical signifi cance of complex affective situations.
- Subjects
MERLEAU-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961; PHILOSOPHY of mind; ETHICS; MORAL judgment; HISTORY; PHENOMENOLOGICAL psychology; AESTHETICS
- Publication
Projections: The Journal for Movies & Mind, 2019, Vol 13, Issue 2, p80
- ISSN
1934-9688
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/proj.2019.130205