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

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, bri...

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1. Verfasser: Lamberti, Edward (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (256 pages) 67 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9781474444026
DOI:10.1515/9781474444026