THIS BOOK IS A GIFT FROM the boston authors club FOUNDED 1900 eatfO»f*MteUtftaiy 0OBteW DWIUtfC f www.bostonauthorsclub.org MOVIES AND THE MORAL ADVENTURE OF LIFE AND MOVIES THE MORAL ADVENTURE OF LIFE Alan A. Stone ForewordbyJoshua Cohen A Boston Review Book the mit press Cambridge,Mass. London, England © Copyright 2007MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced inanyformbyanyelectronicormechanicalmeans(including photocopying,recording,orinformationstorageandretrieval) withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. mit Pressbooksmaybepurchasedatspecialquantity discountsforbusinessorsalespromotionaluse. For information,[email protected] writetoSpecialSalesDepartment,Themit Press, 55HaywardStreet,Cambridge,ma 02142. ThisbookwassetinAdobeGaramondbyBostonReview andwasprintedandboundintheUnitedStatesofAmerica. DesignedbyJoshua Friedman J. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Stone,AlanA. Moviesandthemoraladventureoflife/AlanA. Stone; forewordbyJoshuaCohen. — p. cm. (BostonReviewbooks) isbn:978-0-262-1—9567-6(hardcover: alk- paper) 1.Motionpictures Moralandethicalaspects. I.Title. PN1995.5.S752007 791.43—dc22 2007013762 7654 10 9 3 2 ForKaren, Douglas, andDavid Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/moviesmoraladvenOOston