Screen Stories and Moral Understanding

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction by Carl Plantinga I. Moral Understanding 1. Clarifying Moral Understanding by Ted Nannicelli 2. Understanding (mis)understanding: Sally be a Lamb by Paul C. Taylor II. Transfer and Cultivation 3. Phenomenal Experience and Moral Understanding: A Framework for Assessment By Carl Plantinga 4. The Slow, Subtle, Small Effects of Filmic Narrative on Moral Understanding by Helena Bilandzic 5. Moral Conflict, Screen Stories, and Narrative Appeal by René Weber and Frederic Hopp 6. How Screen Stories Can Contribute to the Formation of Just Persons by Nicholas Wolterstorff III. Affect 7. Affect and Moral Understanding by Robert Sinnerbrink 8. Morality and Media: The Role of Elevation/Inspiration by Mary Beth Oliver IV. Character Engagement 9. Media Characters and Moral Understanding: Perspectives from Media Psychology by Allison Eden and Mathew Grizzard 10. Movies, Examples, and Morality: The Rhetoric of Admiration by Noël Carroll V. The Reflective Afterlife 11. What Roles Can Audiences Play in Generating Moral Understanding? by James Harold 12. On Reflecting on Reflections: The Moral Afterlife and Screen Studies by Wyatt Moss-Wellington 13. The Reflective Afterlife and the Ends of Imagining by Murray Smith Index