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.
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Performing Ethics Through Film Style
Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader
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Performing Ethics Through Film Style
Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader
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- 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
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