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Performing Ethics Through Film Style : Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader / Edward Lamberti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 67 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474444002
  • 9781474444026
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430 1 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.5 .L26 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Textual Performances in Levinas and Film -- PART I The Dardenne Brothers: An Ethics without Rest -- Part I Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Je Pense à Vous and La Promesse: From Describing to Performing -- CHAPTER 2 Levinasian Responsibility in Le Fils -- CHAPTER 3 The Kid with a Bike and the Reframing of Ethics -- PART II Barbet Schroeder: Devoted to the Other -- Part II Introduction -- CHAPTER 4 Maîtresse: Direction without Domination -- CHAPTER 5 The Ethical and the Juridical in Reversal of Fortune and Terror’s Advocate -- CHAPTER 6 Our Lady of the Assassins and Levinas’s Ethics as First Philosophy -- PART III Paul Schrader: An Unexpected Ethics -- Part III Introduction -- CHAPTER 7 American Gigolo and the Ethics of Falling in Love -- CHAPTER 8 Levinasian Limits of Performativity in Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters -- CHAPTER 9 Passivity and Responsibility in The Comfort of Strangers, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist and Adam Resurrected -- Conclusion: Levinasian Films in the World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Uses Levinas and performativity theory to explore the ethical stakes of film styleRead the blog post Edward Lamberti on his new book ‘Performing Ethics through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader’Presents a new approach to ethics and film, bringing film style into productive dialogue with performativity theoryIncludes case studies from three significant filmmaking bodies of workDemonstrates a synthesis of film theory, philosophy and textual analysisEmmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader.Discussing a range of films – including the Dardennes’ Le Fils and The Kid with a Bike, Schroeder’s Maîtresse and Reversal of Fortune and Schrader’s American Gigolo and The Comfort of Strangers – Edward Lamberti demonstrates how film styles can perform a Levinasian ethics."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Textual Performances in Levinas and Film -- PART I The Dardenne Brothers: An Ethics without Rest -- Part I Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Je Pense à Vous and La Promesse: From Describing to Performing -- CHAPTER 2 Levinasian Responsibility in Le Fils -- CHAPTER 3 The Kid with a Bike and the Reframing of Ethics -- PART II Barbet Schroeder: Devoted to the Other -- Part II Introduction -- CHAPTER 4 Maîtresse: Direction without Domination -- CHAPTER 5 The Ethical and the Juridical in Reversal of Fortune and Terror’s Advocate -- CHAPTER 6 Our Lady of the Assassins and Levinas’s Ethics as First Philosophy -- PART III Paul Schrader: An Unexpected Ethics -- Part III Introduction -- CHAPTER 7 American Gigolo and the Ethics of Falling in Love -- CHAPTER 8 Levinasian Limits of Performativity in Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters -- CHAPTER 9 Passivity and Responsibility in The Comfort of Strangers, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist and Adam Resurrected -- Conclusion: Levinasian Films in the World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Uses Levinas and performativity theory to explore the ethical stakes of film styleRead the blog post Edward Lamberti on his new book ‘Performing Ethics through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader’Presents a new approach to ethics and film, bringing film style into productive dialogue with performativity theoryIncludes case studies from three significant filmmaking bodies of workDemonstrates a synthesis of film theory, philosophy and textual analysisEmmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader.Discussing a range of films – including the Dardennes’ Le Fils and The Kid with a Bike, Schroeder’s Maîtresse and Reversal of Fortune and Schrader’s American Gigolo and The Comfort of Strangers – Edward Lamberti demonstrates how film styles can perform a Levinasian ethics."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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