A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television
- Submitting institution
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University for the Creative Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Panse, S. 2014. CJ
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137014184
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137014184
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137014177#:~:text=Editors%3A%20Panse%2C%20S.%2C
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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2 - Fine Art and Photography Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This collection, co-edited by Dr Silke Panse and Dennis Rothermel, responds to a significant increase of judgment and judgmentalism in contemporary television, film and social media. As co-editors, Panse and Rothermel contributed equally to the volume’s proposal, the commissioning of authors and its realisation, and they co-wrote the volume’s introduction. In addition to co-editing the volume and co-writing the introduction, Panse also contributed the sole-authored chapter ‘The judging spectator in the image’.
Panse co-wrote the volume’s introduction with Rothermel, within which they provide an overview of judgement on screen, explaining that the comment sections on online press webpages and blogs, along with social media such as Facebook and Twitter, elicit and propagate our judgments incessantly. By viewing something we are also viewed; we are judged through judging. The rise of not just legal, but subjective judgment affects all areas of public and private life, at work and at leisure, from popular culture to academia.
In addition to co-editing the volume and co-writing the introduction, Panse also contributed the sole-authored chapter ‘The judging spectator in the image’. This chapter argues that on television, it is the emotions of the judgment itself that are the selling point of the television program in what Panse calls ‘judgment shows’. Examining programs such as MasterChef and American Idol through a Kantian lens, this chapter considers that in television today, it is the emotions that the object (which is often a subject) evokes that are judged and the amount to which the judges are moved is taken as a measure of the quality of who or what is judged.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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