The Act of Seeing: Cinema, Ethics and Responsibility

In a period in which near-unbounded access to film is coinciding with greater transparency about industrial and interpersonal transgressions, viewers may increasingly find themselves faced with difficult decisions before sitting down to watch a movie. Speaking to ethicist Matthew Beard and film academics Steve Thomas, Stuart Richards and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Emma Westwood investigates the core issues at stake and where the limits of a viewer's ethical duties lie.

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Talking Society, middle years, senior secondary, morality, education, exploitation, animal welfare, documentary ethics, All the Money in the World, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Frida, Stories We Tell, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, Peggy Drexler, Sarah Polley, Michael Moore, Salma Hayek