Performing Ethics Through Film Style

Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader

Edward Lamberti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4401-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Emmanuel 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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	67 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-4401-6 / 1474444016
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4401-9 / 9781474444019
Zustand	Neuware