Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader
Edward Lamberti
Uses Levinas and performativity theory to explore the ethical stakes of film style
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- Presents a new approach to ethics and film, bringing film style into productive dialogue with performativity theory
- Includes case studies from three significant filmmaking bodies of work
- Demonstrates a synthesis of film theory, philosophy and textual analysis
Emmanuel 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.
Année:
2022
Editeur::
Edinburgh University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
256
ISBN 10:
1474444024
ISBN 13:
9781474444026
Fichier:
PDF, 9.24 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2022