Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters

ISBN-13: 9780415409278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 184 str.

Lisa Downing

Opis

Film & Ethics considers a range of films and texts of film criticism alongside disparate philosophical discourses of ethics by Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Lacanian psychoanalysts and postmodern theorists.

Spis treści

Introduction  Section 1: Representation and Spectatorship  Section 1 Introduction  1. 'Tracking Shots are a Question of Morality': Ethics, Aesthetics, Documentary  2. Testing Positive: Gender, Sexuality, Representation  3. The South looks back: Ethics, Race, Cultural Identity  4. Ethics, Spectatorship and the Spectacle of Suffering  5. Pornography and the Ethics of Censorship  Section 2: Theory, Ethics, Film  Section 2 Introduction  6. Blinding Visions: Levinas, Ethics, Faciality  7. Deconstructive Ethics: Derrida, Dryer, Responsibility  8. Foucault in Focus: Ethics, Surveillance, Soma  9. The Cinematic Ethics of Psychoanalysis: Futurity, Death Drive, Desire  10. What if we are Post-Ethical? Postmodernism's Ethics and Aesthetics