{"product_id":"9781350642638","title":"Truth, Justice, and Beauty in Film and Television Taste, Narrative, and the Search for the Good","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTruth, Justice, and Beauty in Film and Television\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTaste, Narrative, and the Search for the Good\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSeth Vannatta\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is real? What is just? What forms of beauty educate us to see, feel, taste, and care properly? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth Vannatta argues that contemporary film and prestige television have become central sites for the exploration of philosophical questions. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when the traditional philosophical canon is increasingly distant from everyday moral life, Vannatta shows how popular narrative forms now function as laboratories of ethical reflection, social critique, and metaphysical speculation. They  stage conflicts, cultivate sensibilities, and shape the conditions under which truth, justice, and beauty can be recognized, embraced, or missed altogether.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVannatta's guiding claim is that the Good continues to structure our moral and intellectual lives, even when it goes unnamed. It appears implicitly in questions of truth, where characters confront the limits of knowledge, sincerity, and self-understanding; in questions of justice, where institutions shape moral responsibility under conditions of inequality; and in questions of beauty, where aesthetic form, taste, and imagination train our moral perception. He uses these three dimensions-true, just, and beautiful- to organize his study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on TV shows including\u003ci\u003e Seinfeld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Place\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMad Men, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Wire \u003c\/i\u003eand films such as \u003ci\u003eArmageddon Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTaking Sides\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRemains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGet Out, \u003c\/i\u003eVannatta explores a range of philosophical branches-ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, metaphysics, and existence- and concepts from gender and race to irony and sincerity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis timely book treats movies and shows as occasions for philosophical discovery. By educating our moral attention,  they reveal the enduring significance of popular culture. Vannatta reveals how film and television, for all their commercial constraints and ideological entanglements, repeatedly shape how we perceive ourselves, others, and the worlds we navigate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSeth Vannatta is Professor of Philosophy at Morgan State University, USA.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350642638\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51197856153740,"sku":"9781350642638","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350642638","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}