| 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 |
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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
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Dardenne, Jean-Pierre, 1951- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dardenne, Luc, 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Schrader, Paul, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Schroeder, Barbet -- Criticism and interpretation
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Schroeder, Barbet |
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Dardenne, Jean-Pierre, 1951- |
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Dardenne, Luc, 1954- |
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Lévinas, Emmanuel |
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Schrader, Paul, 1946- |
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Philosophy
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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Ethics
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474444026 |
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1474444024 |
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9781474476621 |
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1474476627 |
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9781474444033 |
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1474444032 |
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