Product Description

This book is intended for scholars and students of media and communication studies, ethics, and moral philosophy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #894592 in Books
• Published on: 1991-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
"Particularly timely and thought-provoking."--Ethics
"[An] excellent and very readable book that goes a long way to help students understand the rights of victims and subjects in relation to the role of the journalist."--Glenn Novak, West Georgia College
"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....The struggles in Image Ethics over informed consent, pluralism, symbolic annihilation, and o forth have ramifications far beyond the borders of visual media....Merits recognition by serious students within this larger arena. But deliberately connected to narrative ethics in the contributors' future essays of in a subsequent volume, their ethics of representation could serve like an ancient cornerstone of the professional ethics building, squaring up the lines and anchoring its architectural contours."--Journal of Communication
"[A] provocative collection."--Columbia Journalism Review
"The case histories documented here can be read with profit by British practitioners. There are questions to be ansered which some have preferred not to hear....Image Ethics does a valuable service in reminding us that the focused object in the lens is a subject too."--Times literary Supplement

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Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television, L. Gross, J. S. Katz and J. Ruby, eds., Oxford University Press, 1988.

"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. . . Image Ethics approaches the issues from a fresh perspective that will make it a landmark in the history of the field. . . In contrast to the uneven quality of most edited volumes, these essays are consistently excellent, enabling them to establish the framework by which the ethics of image making will be addressed in the future." Journal of Communication

"Image Ethics is that rare thing, a genuine and provocative trail-blazer. It opens up pathways for others to explore more deeply, and is a vital addition to film literature." Film Quarterly

"This text is destined to become a feature of that bookshelf of core literature that defines our field of study." Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

"… provocative collection of thirteen essays on the taking and showing of pictures." Columbia Journalism Review

"The case histories here can be read with profit… There are questions to be answered which some have preferred not to hear. . . There are no glib answers to any of these questions, and the essayists here do not attempt them." Times Literary Supplement

"Some of these pieces are 'must readings' for ethics and law syllabi in our field. . . These are critical case studies as poignant as any currently running the media ethics circuit." Journalism Quarterly