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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968093903321

Titolo

Image ethics : the moral rights of subjects in photographs, film, and television / / edited by Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, and Jay Ruby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772464-7

0-19-536184-9

1-4237-6444-7

1-60129-806-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Collana

Communication and society

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

174

Soggetti

Portraits - Law and legislation - United States

Mass media - Law and legislation - United States

Privacy, Right of - United States

Portraits - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p273-379.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword: Images, Ethics, and Organizations -- 1. Introduction: A Moral Pause -- 2. The Tradition of the Victim in Griersonian Documentary -- 3. Direct Cinema and the Myth of Informed Consent: The Case of Titicut Follies -- 4. Access and Consent in Public Photography -- 5. Ethics and Professionalism in Documentary Film-making -- 6. Ethics and the Perception of Ethics in Autobiographical Film -- 7. Images as Property -- 8. A Study in Multiple Forms of Bias -- 9. The Ethics of (Mis)representation -- 10. Perspectives on the Television Arab -- 11. Hollywood Markets the Amish -- 12. Out of South Africa: The Gods Must Be Crazy -- 13. Lesbian and Gay Documentary: Minority Self-Imaging, Oppositional Film Practice, and the Question of Image Ethics -- Selected Annotated Bibliography -- List of Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

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.