The eye of the cinematograph : Levinas and realisms of the body / Keyvan Manafi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manafi, Keyvan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Human body in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

<i>The Eye of the Cinematograph</i> investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of the automatic formation of the body's image by the camera. Drawing on Emmanuel Lévinas' thought, Manafi asks what happens when the other makes their body available to the gaze of the camera to be automatically recorded, and this giving of the body is preserved within the image, juxtaposed with other images to allude to a story that might otherwise remain untold.<br><br>To locate the ethical at this intersection of the body and the aesthetic, this book articulates an ethical account of a diverse range of film theories to demonstrate alternative encounters with the other that realisms of the body offer. Manafi discusses works by Chantal Akerman, Bruno Dumont, Pedro Costa, Gus Van Sant, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Abbas Kiarostami, Amir Naderi, Jafar Panahi, Carlos Reygadas and Andy Warhol to make a case for the ethics and aesthetics of incompleteness and performative failure.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

1 The Ethical and the Image

2 The Image and the Body

3 The Body and the Camera

4 Literal Durations and Cinematic Parallelism

5 The Inhuman Eye and the Formless Body

6 Re-enactment, Proxies and the Facing Image

7 The Withdrawal of the Body

8 The Offscreen and the Promise of the Image

Coda

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-3995-0727-3

1-3995-0726-5

OCLC:

1372425954