All I've Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives
tarafından
Chiasson, Ross, author.
Başlık
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All I've Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives
Yazar
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Chiasson, Ross, author.
ISBN
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9780438180376
Yazar Ek Girişi
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Chiasson, Ross, author.
Fiziksel Tanımlama
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1 electronic resource (161 pages)
Genel Not
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Kelly McGuire Committee members: Kathryn Norlock.
Özet
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This thesis is concerned with how specific aesthetic elements function in various contemporary texts to distort, obscure, or illuminate the immoral actions and behaviours being represented. This thesis applies the moral status philosophy of Mary Anne Warren, along with the moral philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and Zygmunt Bauman. Close reading and critical analysis are supported by Michele Aaron's theory of spectatorship. The sublime is explored in Dexter (2006) and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986), the uncanny in Battlestar Galactica (2003) and Westworld (2016), and the abject in The Walking Dead (2003) and World War Z (2006). The intentions of this project are to conduct a formal examination of the relationship between audience and text as it is filtered through aesthetic representation and moral frameworks. This thesis argues that aesthetic effects must be understood in connection to morality for active consumers to engage with these texts as sites for ethical consideration.
Notlar
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School code: 0513
Konu Başlığı
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British & Irish literature.
Philosophy.
Film studies.
Tüzel Kişi Ek Girişi
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Trent University (Canada). English (Public Texts).
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