Moral Claims In The Age Of Spectacles: Shaping The Social Imaginary
by Brian M. Lowe /
2017 / English / PDF
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This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating,
spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are
expressed within spectacles. Brian M. Lowe explains how
spectacles emerge when we are saturated with mediated
representations―including pictures, texts, and videos―and exposed
to television and movies and the myriad stories they tell us. The
question of which moral issues gain our attention and which are
neglected increasingly relates to how societal concerns are
supported―or obscured―by spectacles. This project explores
how this new form of moral understanding came to be. Through a
series of case studies, including the use of radio and comic
books; the crafting of Russian national identity through art;
television and film; the evolution of human rights law through
film and journalism; and the promotion of animal rights
campaigns, this book unveils some of the ways in which
our spectacular environment shapes moral understanding, and is in
turn shaped by spectacle.
This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating,
spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are
expressed within spectacles. Brian M. Lowe explains how
spectacles emerge when we are saturated with mediated
representations―including pictures, texts, and videos―and exposed
to television and movies and the myriad stories they tell us. The
question of which moral issues gain our attention and which are
neglected increasingly relates to how societal concerns are
supported―or obscured―by spectacles. This project explores
how this new form of moral understanding came to be. Through a
series of case studies, including the use of radio and comic
books; the crafting of Russian national identity through art;
television and film; the evolution of human rights law through
film and journalism; and the promotion of animal rights
campaigns, this book unveils some of the ways in which
our spectacular environment shapes moral understanding, and is in
turn shaped by spectacle.