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Crew shooting early scene for the short, research-based film, RUFUS
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Kip Jones’ draft Chapter for The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History
was deposited today on BRIAN and Academia.edu. The book’s section on Ethics is
edited by Ivor Goodson, with assistance from Ari Antikainen, Molly Andrews and
Pat Sikes. Jones’ Chapter entitled, “Styles of Good Sense—Ethics, Filmmaking
and Scholarship” is based upon his experience as researcher, author and
producer of the award winning short film, RUFUS STONE.
Jones proposes that aesthetics and
ethics need to be considered in concert and that they are at the very heart of
arts-based research. Ethics and Aesthetics become intertwined and support one
another. Jones states:
‘Ethics, much like aesthetics, is often
misunderstood as something effusive, illusive and somehow, decision-making by
the few on a rarefied echelon, involving pronouncements of grand moral impact
and/or sophisticated discrimination. For these kinds of reasons and to avoid
potential headaches, it is often assumed that checklists and committees will be
far better at making such decisions than mere individuals.’
Jones believes that ethics and
aesthetics need to remain the prerogative of the researcher/filmmaker and
her/his participants and audiences. By developing a trust in instinct and
intuition and the naturally expressive and moral potential of our personal
resources, research involving people’s stories can become richer and more
human, if we only are willing to jettison some of the baggage of the old
academic rigor and dry procedural ethics.
Jones’ involvement in the section of
the book on Ethics will include co-contributors Arthur Frank, Norm Denzin,
Laurel Richardson and Carolyn Ellis, and will be published in the New Year.
