Mouse Morality

Author : Annalee R. Ward
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292773936

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Mouse Morality by Annalee R. Ward Pdf

2004 – Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award — The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research Kids around the world love Disney animated films, and many of their parents trust the Disney corporation to provide wholesome, moral entertainment for their children. Yet frequent protests and even boycotts of Disney products and practices reveal a widespread unease with the sometimes mixed and inconsistent moral values espoused in Disney films as the company attempts to appeal to the largest possible audience. In this book, Annalee R. Ward uses a variety of analytical tools based in rhetorical criticism to examine the moral messages taught in five recent Disney animated films—The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Mulan. Taking the films on their own terms, she uncovers the many mixed messages they purvey: for example, females can be leaders—but male leadership ought to be the norm; stereotyping is wrong—but black means evil; historical truth is valued—but only tell what one can sell, etc. Adding these messages together, Ward raises important questions about the moral ambiguity of Disney's overall worldview and demonstrates the need for parents to be discerning in letting their children learn moral values and life lessons from Disney films.

Author : John A. Zukowski
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780829800449

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100 Spiritual Movies to See before You Die by John A. Zukowski Pdf

Spiritual themes are common in movies: The unconventional savior. The hero’s journey. The redemption tale. The balance of creation. Journalist John A. Zukowski reflects on twelve major spiritual themes in the world of cinema, discussing films from Dead Man Walking to Bruce Almighty, from Groundhog Day to Chariots of Fire, and many more. See them all—read them all—before you die!

Author : Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher : Om Books International
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789384225315

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365 Moral Stories by Om Books Editorial Team Pdf

Stories don’t just transport us into a world of imagination; they teach us good morals too. 365 Moral Stories bring forth a special story for each day of the year and a lesson to learn with it. Immerse yourself into the wonderful world of stories and learn a new moral each day! After 365 stories, you’re bound to learn a lot! Let the reading – and the learning – begin!

Author : Benjamin Lefebvre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136227172

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Textual Transformations in Children's Literature by Benjamin Lefebvre Pdf

This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits children’s literature and culture in order to consider the generic, pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folktales, films, graphic novels, and anime, the authors consider the challenges inherent in transforming the work of authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and A.A. Milne into new forms that are palatable for later audiences particularly when—for perceived ideological or political reasons—the textual transformation is not only unavoidable but entirely necessary. Contributors consider the challenges inherent in transforming stories and characters from one type of text to another, across genres, languages, and time, offering a range of new models that will inform future scholarship.

Author : April Seldon
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9783755417996

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The Sayings of Daryl Frank Seldon by April Seldon Pdf

Rest in peace, my brother. You live on in all of our hearts forever. You are truly missed. You are loved by many people. We still cannot believe that you are gone, and it does not feel like it, it feels like you are still here with us. Your memory lives on. Your very words will live on.

Author : Alastair J.L. Blanshard,Emma Stafford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440067

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The Modern Hercules by Alastair J.L. Blanshard,Emma Stafford Pdf

The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero’s transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.

Author : Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191068379

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Fellow Creatures by Christine M. Korsgaard Pdf

Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.

Author : Bernard Gert
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : CHI:80471236

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Morality and the New Genetics by Bernard Gert Pdf

How philosophical analysis can be used in developing policies to deal with the moral issue of new genetics.

Author : R.C. Neighbors,Sandy Rankin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786458752

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The Galaxy Is Rated G by R.C. Neighbors,Sandy Rankin Pdf

Through spaceships, aliens, ray guns and other familiar trappings, science fiction uses the future (and sometimes the past) to comment on current social, cultural and political ideologies; the same is true of science fiction in children's film and television. This collection of essays analyzes the confluences of science fiction and children's visual media, covering such cultural icons as Flash Gordon, the Jetsons and Star Wars, as well as more contemporary fare like the films Wall-E, Monsters vs. Aliens and Toy Story. Collectively, the essays discover, applaud and critique the hidden--and not-so-hidden--messages presented on our children's film and TV screens.

Author : Graeme Harper,Ruth Doughty,Jochen Eisentraut
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501305443

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Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media by Graeme Harper,Ruth Doughty,Jochen Eisentraut Pdf

Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview is a comprehensive work defining and encapsulating concepts, issues and applications in and around the use of sound in film and the cinema, media/broadcast and new media. Over thirty definitive full-length essays, which are linked by highlighted text and reference material, bring together original research by many of the world's top scholars in this emerging field. Complete with an extensive bibliography, Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media provides the most comprehensive and wide-ranging consideration of this subject yet produced.

Author : Laura Joffe Numeroff
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063229631

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff Pdf

If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim.... The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book.

Author : Karen Rader
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691187587

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Making Mice by Karen Rader Pdf

Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. Karen Rader introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structures of modern biomedical research centered around the National Institutes of Health. Throughout Making Mice, Rader explains how the story of mouse research illuminates our understanding of key issues in the history of science such as the role of model organisms in furthering scientific thought. Ultimately, genetically standardized mice became icons of standardization in biomedicine by successfully negotiating the tension between the natural and the man-made in experimental practice. This book will become a landmark work for its understanding of the cultural and institutional origins of modern biomedical research. It will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers.

Author : Floyd W. Rudmin,Marsha Lee Richins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043423685

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Meaning, Measure, and Morality of Materialism by Floyd W. Rudmin,Marsha Lee Richins Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B5176835

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The King's College Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Valerie Tiberius
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000901566

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Moral Psychology by Valerie Tiberius Pdf

Released in 2014, this was the first philosophy textbook in moral psychology, introducing students to a range of philosophical topics and debates such as: what is moral motivation? Do reasons for action always depend on desires? Is emotion or reason at the heart of moral judgment? Under what conditions are people morally responsible? Are there self-interested reasons for people to be moral? The Second Edition of Moral Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction, updates its responses to these questions, taking advantage of the explosion of recent research from philosophers and psychologists on these topics, and adding a chapter on the question of whether morality is innate or learned. As before, the book emphasizes the relationship between traditional and interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology and aims to carefully explain how empirical research is (or is not) relevant to philosophical inquiry. The bulleted summaries, study questions, and lists for further readings at the end of each chapter have been updated. Key Updates to the Second Edition: Includes a new opening section on human nature, borrowing material from elsewhere in the book Adds a new chapter on evolutionary and developmental arguments for the innateness of morality Expands coverage of the challenges to psychological research, including the replication crisis and the WEIRDness challenge Provides a new section on implicit bias and moral responsibility Offers enhanced clarity and accessibility throughout Includes up-to-date further reading sections and bibliography