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Selfless cinema? : ethics and French documentary / Sarah Cooper.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.D6 C66 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Sarah, 1971-
- Series:
- Research monographs in French studies ; 20.
- Research monographs in French studies ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019.
- Depardon, Raymond.
- Rouch, Jean.
- Lévinas, Emmanuel.
- Documentary films--France.
- Documentary films.
- Documentary films--Moral and ethical aspects--France.
- Motion pictures--France.
- Motion pictures.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Documentary films--Moral and ethical aspects.
- France.
- Lévinas, Emmanuel--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rouch, Jean--Criticism and interpretation.
- Marker, Chris, 1921-2012--Criticism and interpretation.
- Marker, Chris.
- Marker, Chris, 1921-2012.
- Depardon, Raymond--Criticism and interpretation.
- Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019--Criticism and interpretation.
- Varda, Agnès.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 102 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Legenda, 2006.
- Summary:
- In Selfless Cinema?, Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of filmmaking are often examined in largely legalistic terms, dominated by issues of consent, responsibility, and participants' or film-makers' rights, but Cooper approaches four representative French film-makers - Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Raymond Depardon, and Agnes Varda - in a far less juridical way, drawing on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She argues that, in spite of Levinas's iconoclastic, anti-ocular thinking, his concept of visage is richly applicable to film, and especially to documentary.
- Contents:
- 1 Levinas's Ethical Vision 15
- 2 Knowing Images: Jean Rouch's Ethnography 31
- 3 Chris Marker: Love, Death and Documentary 48
- 4 Raymond Depardon: Finding the Right Distance 62
- 5 Film Portraits: From Jane B. to Agnes V 77.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1904713122
- OCLC:
- 63767747
- Publisher Number:
- 9781904713128
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