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

ISBN-13: 9781474444002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Edward Lamberti

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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