All I've Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives
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All I've Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives
Yazar:
Chiasson, Ross, author.
ISBN:
9780438180376
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1 electronic resource (161 pages)
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Kelly McGuire Committee members: Kathryn Norlock.
Özet:
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.
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School code: 0513
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