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Author Lamberti, Edward, author

Title Performing ethics through film style : Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader / Edward Lamberti
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Ethics
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre, 1951- -- Criticism and interpretation
Dardenne, Luc, 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation
Schrader, Paul, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation
Schroeder, Barbet -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Schroeder, Barbet fast
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre, 1951- fast
Dardenne, Luc, 1954- fast
Lévinas, Emmanuel fast
Schrader, Paul, 1946- fast
Subject Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Philosophy
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
Ethics
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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