Image Ethics The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television

Name: Image Ethics The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television
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ISBN: 9780195054330

ISBN-10: 0195054334

ISBN-13: 9780195054330

Edition: 1988

Authors: Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, Jay Ruby

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This pathbreaking collection of thirteen original essays examines the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film, photography, and television. Image makers--photographers and filmmakers--are coming under increasing criticism for presenting images of people that are considered intrusive and embarrassing to the subject. Portraying subjects in a "false light," appropriating their images, and failing to secure "informed consent" are all practices that intensify the debate between advocates of the right to privacy and the public's right to know. Discussing these questions from a variety of perspectives, the authors here explore such issues as informed consent, the "right" of individuals…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

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,editor of Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Televisionand On the Margins of Art Worlds,and coeditor (with the late James Woods) of The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics.

Jay Rubyï¿½is professor emeritus of anthropology at Temple University and the author or editor of numerous books.

Preface	p. v
Foreword: Images, Ethics, and Organizations	p. xi
Introduction: A Moral Pause	p. 3
The Tradition of the Victim in Griersonian Documentary	p. 34
Direct Cinema and the Myth of Informed Consent: The Case of Titicut Follies	p. 58
Access and Consent in Public Photography	p. 91
Ethics and Professionalism in Documentary Film-making	p. 108
Ethics and the Perception of Ethics in Autobiographical Film	p. 119
Images as Property	p. 135
A Study in Multiple Forms of Bias	p. 163
The Ethics of (Mis) representation	p. 188
Perspectives on the Television Arab	p. 203
Hollywood Markets the Amish	p. 220
Out of South Africa: The Gods Must Be Crazy	p. 236
Lesbian and Gay Documentary: Minority Self-Imaging, Oppositional Film Practice, and the Question of Image Ethics	p. 248
Selected Annotated Bibliography	p. 273
List of Contributors	p. 381
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