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Performing ethics through film style : Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader /

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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lamberti, Edward (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Textual Performances in Levinas and Film
  • Part I The Dardenne Brothers: An Ethics without Rest
  • Part I Introduction
  • 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
  • Part II Introduction
  • 4. Maîtresse: Direction without Domination
  • 5. The Ethical and the Juridical in Reversal of Fortune and
  • 6. Our Lady of the Assassins and Levinas's Ethics as First Philosophy
  • Part III Paul Schrader: An Unexpected Ethics
  • Part III Introduction
  • 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