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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777905303321

Autore

Downing Lisa

Titolo

Film and ethics [[electronic resource] ] : foreclosed encounters / / Lisa Downing and Libby Saxton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-23200-8

1-282-28435-5

9786612284359

0-203-87201-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SaxtonLibby <1975->

Disciplina

791.43/653

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Moral and ethical aspects

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section 1 Introduction to Section 1: Representation and spectatorship; Chapter 1 'Tracking shots are a question of morality': Ethics, aesthetics, documentary; Chapter 2 Testing positive: Gender, sexuality, representation; Chapter 3 The South looks back: Ethics, race, postcolonialism; Chapter 4 Ethics, spectatorship and the spectacle of suffering; Chapter 5 Pornography and the ethics of censorship; Section 2 Introduction to Section 2: Theory, ethics, film; Chapter 6 Blinding visions: Levinas, ethics, faciality

Chapter 7 Deconstructive ethics: Derrida, Dreyer, responsibilityChapter 8 Foucault in focus: Ethics, surveillance, soma; Chapter 9 The cinematic ethics of psychoanalysis: Futurity, death drive, desire; Chapter 10 What if we are post-ethical? Postmodernism's ethics and aesthetics; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.