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Conference: An International Women's Convention, "Salon Femmes de la Mediterranee", organized by The Women Journalist of the Mediterranean Network (NGO), will take place, for the first time, from September 24-30, 1997 in the Foire Internationale de Casablance in Morocco.

Elaboration of address before a public meeting under the auspices of Masses & Mainstream, New York, Feb. 3, 1950.

"Cognitive Film and Media Ethics provides a grounding in the use of cognitive science to address key questions in film, television and screen media ethics. This book extends past works in cognitive media studies to answer normative and ethically prescriptive questions: what could make media morally good or bad, and what, then, are the respective responsibilities of media producers and consumers? Moss-Wellington makes a primary claim that normative propositions are a kind of rigour, in that they force media theorists to draw more active ought conclusions from descriptive is arguments. Cognitive Film and Media Ethics presents the rigours of normative reasoning, cognitive science and consequentialist ethics as complementary, arguing that each seeks progressive elaboration on their own models of causality, and causal projections are crucial for any reflection on our moral responsibilities in the world. A hermeneutics of "ethical cognitivism" is applied in the latter half of the book, with essays each addressing a different case study in film, television, news and social media: cinema that sets out to inspire moral dissonance in the viewer, satirical and humorous depictions of family drama in film and television, the politics of the romantic comedy, formal aspects of screen media bullying in an era dubbed the "television renaissance," and contemporary problems in the conflation of news and social media. Cognitive Film and Media Ethics synthesises current research in social psychology, anthropology, memory studies, emotion and cognition, personality and media selection, and evolutionary biology, integrating wide-ranging concepts from the various disciplines that make up cognitive theory to provide new vantages on the applied ethics of film and screen media"--

Betrachtet man nur einmal die Kapitelüberschriften samt Untertiteln, beginnt man schon neugierig zu werden auf die unterschiedlichen Auseinandersetzungen der verschiedenen Autoren dieses Sammelwerkes mit den diversen Darstellungsformen von Männlichkeit im Film: Um nur einige der gebotenen Anreize in Stichworten zu nennen: "Actionkino", "Star-Trek-Captains", "Baise-Moi", "Richard Gere" und "Kubricks Männerbild". Schnell liest man sich an der Darstellung unterschiedlichster Formen der Männlichkeit in den verschiedenen Filmgenres und deren Wandlungen und Richtungsänderungen im Laufe der Zeit fest, findet bestehende Vorurteile bestätigt und staunt über unerwartete Wendungen und Klassifizierungen. (2) (LK/PB: Grumpe-Aßmann)