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Film and ethics : foreclosed encounters / Lisa Downing and Libby Saxton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downing, Lisa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-23200-8
- 1-282-28435-5
- 9786612284359
- 0-203-87201-0
- 9780203872017
- OCLC:
- 471700338
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