Image Ethics by Larry Gross

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Summary

A collection of essays on the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film and television. It examines the conflicts between the subject's right to privacy, the public's right to know, and the film-maker's right as an artist.

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Image Ethics by Larry Gross

This book is intended for scholars and students of media and communication studies, ethics, and moral philosophy.
`Image Ethics looks almost exclusively at United States practice, supplemented by Brian Winston's lively essay on the tradition of the victim as subject in British documentaries of the 1930sImage Ethics does a valuable service in reminding us that the focused object in the lens is a subject too.' Times Literary Supplement
`A provocative collection of thirteen essays on the taking and showing of pictures.' Columbia Journalism Review
'The authors remind us frequently, and with dramatic illustrations, that it is not always easy to distinguih between truth and deception, between genuine commitment and manipulation... But the cumulative effect of reading through this book is to force the reader into a greater awareness of the moral responsibility which falls both upon those who produce and those who consume the images with which we are surrounded.' The Toronto Globe and Mail, February, 1989.
'This invigorating book reminds me of that moment in geological time when Earth shifted on its axis...Adjusting for proportions, Image Ethics fundamentally alters the world of visual imagery.' Journal of Communication, Autumn, 1989.
Larry Gross is Sol Worth Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing and editor of Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film and Television, and On the Margins of Art Worlds.James D. Woods was assistant professor of communications at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, and author of The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America.
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ISBN 13 9780195067804
ISBN 10 0195067800
Title Image Ethics
Author Larry Gross
Series Communication And Society
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 1991-08-15
Number of pages 400
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.