Performing Ethics through Film Style : Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader

Lamberti, Edward

Edinburgh University Press（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474444002
• DDC分類 791.4301

Full Description

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 Maitresse 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.

Contents

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