Performing Ethics Through Film Style : : Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader / / Edward Lamberti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Lamberti, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 67 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Textual Performances in Levinas and Film --; PART I The Dardenne Brothers: An Ethics without Rest --; Part I Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 Je Pense à Vous and La Promesse: From Describing to Performing --; CHAPTER 2 Levinasian Responsibility in Le Fils --; CHAPTER 3 The Kid with a Bike and the Reframing of Ethics --; PART II Barbet Schroeder: Devoted to the Other --; Part II Introduction --; CHAPTER 4 Maîtresse: Direction without Domination --; CHAPTER 5 The Ethical and the Juridical in Reversal of Fortune and Terror’s Advocate --; CHAPTER 6 Our Lady of the Assassins and Levinas’s Ethics as First Philosophy --; PART III Paul Schrader: An Unexpected Ethics --; Part III Introduction --; CHAPTER 7 American Gigolo and the Ethics of Falling in Love --; CHAPTER 8 Levinasian Limits of Performativity in Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters --; CHAPTER 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474444026; 9783110780420
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474444026?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edward Lamberti.

Uses Levinas and performativity theory to explore the ethical stakes of film styleRead the blog post Edward Lamberti on his new book ‘Performing Ethics through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader’Presents a new approach to ethics and film, bringing film style into productive dialogue with performativity theoryIncludes case studies from three significant filmmaking bodies of workDemonstrates a synthesis of film theory, philosophy and textual analysisEmmanuel 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 Maîtresse 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."