Edward Lamberti

Performing Ethics Through Film Style

Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Barbet Schroeder, Paul Schrader and the Dardenne Brothers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781474444019
• ISBN-10: 1474444016
• Artikelnr.: 60011857

Autorenporträt

Edward Lamberti has a PhD in Film Studies from King's College London and he works at the BBFC. He is the editor of Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age(2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Textual Performances in Levinas and Film
Part I: The Dardenne Brothers: An Ethics Without Rest
1: Je Pense à Vous and La Promesse: From Describing to Performing
2: Levinasian Responsibility in Le Fils
3: The Kid with a Bike and the Reframing of Ethics
Part II: Barbet Schroeder: Devoted to the Other
4: Maîtresse: Direction Without Domination
5: The Ethical and the Juridical in Reversal of Fortune and Terror's Advocate
6: Our Lady of the Assassins and Levinas's Ethics as First Philosophy
Part III: Paul Schrader: An Unexpected Ethics
7: American Gigolo and the Ethics of Falling in Love
8: Levinasian Limits of Performativity in Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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