I’d like to pay my respects to the fine Australian publication, Screen Education – which recently closed its doors after 25 years – with an article I wrote for the Screen team, ‘The Act of Seeing: Cinema, Ethics and Responsibility’.
Editor David Heslin and I worked very hard to craft this piece and ensure it was pitched appropriately so I think it’s worth immortalising here on my website. Not to mention, the article contains input from ethicist Matthew Beard and film academics Steve Thomas, Stuart Richards and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. You can find the full text posted below.
Note: ‘The Act of Seeing’ also functions as a partner piece to my previous article, ‘To Watch or Not to Watch, That is the Question’, examining similar ethical considerations on watching cinema but from a different angle, which you can read online at Diabolique.
Hope you enjoy the read or, at the very least, it gets the cogs of your mind freewheeling…
EMMA WESTWOOD 