Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader, Edward Lamberti (9781474444002) — Readings Books

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Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader
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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 Maitresse 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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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Date
30 November 2019
Pages
272
ISBN
9781474444002

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 Maitresse 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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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Date
30 November 2019
Pages
272
ISBN
9781474444002