[csaa-forum] Seminar: Associate Professor Jane Stadler, Cinema's Compassionate Gaze: Empathy, Affect, and Aesthetics in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, UniSA, Adelaide, May 22

[Susan Luckman]

Cinema's Compassionate Gaze: Empathy, Affect, and Aesthetics in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
22 May 2013

Location
City West Campus

HRI Seminar Series
Associate Professor Jane Stadler
Wednesday 22 May 2013


Event Details
Date

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Time


3.00pm - 4.30 pm
Seminar runs for approximately one hour and will be followed by afternoon tea

Venue

H5-26, Level 5, Hawke Building, City West campus, City West Campus<https://www.unisa.edu.au/Campus-Facilities/Maps-Tours/City-West-campus/>

Register

Register <https://www.unisa.edu.au/Calendar/Cinemas-Compassionate-Gaze-Empathy-Affect-and-Aesthetics-in-The-Diving-Bell-and-the-Butterfly-/#register> by Monday 20 May 2013


Abstract
This phenomenological case study of the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007) analyses how compassion and empathy can be perceived, expressed, and evoked cinematically. Associate Professor Jane Stadler will question how aesthetic and narrative techniques affect film audiences and inform the construction of ethical meaning. She argues that the cognitive, affective, and intersubjective qualities of compassion facilitate ethical understanding and demonstrate that the way the film facilitates heightened attunement to the sensory body and insight into the protagonist's subjectivity is indicative of the role cinema can play in engendering empathy.

Jane Stadler is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. She is author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film and Ethics (2008), co-author of Screen Media (2009) and Media and Society (2012), and co-editor of an adaptation studies anthology, Pockets of Change: Adaptation and Cultural Transition (2011).

Register at: https://www.unisa.edu.au/Calendar/Cinemas-Compassionate-Gaze-Empathy-Affect-and-Aesthetics-in-The-Diving-Bell-and-the-Butterfly-/


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associate professor susan luckman
associate head of school: research
school of communication, international studies and languages

university of south australia

Room C2-33A, Magill Campus
Tel: +618 8302 4152
Fax: +618 8302 4745
http://people.unisa.edu.au/Susan.Luckman

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