Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters

by Downing; Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780415409278
• ISBN10: 0415409276
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-10-16
• Publisher: Routledge

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.

Author Biography

Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Exeter. Her publications include Patrice Leconte (2004), From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve, ed. with Sue Harris (2007), and The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (2008). Libby Saxton is Lecturer in French and Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is author of Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust (2008) and co-editor, with Simon Kemp, of Seeing Things: Vision, Perception and Interpretation in French Studies (2002).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Representation and spectatorship	p. 17
Introduction to Section	p. 1
'Tracking shots are a question of morality': Ethics, aesthetics, documentary	p. 22
Testing positive: Gender, sexuality, representation	p. 36
The South looks back: Ethics, race, postcolonialism	p. 50
Ethics, spectatorship and the spectacle of suffering	p. 62
Pornography and the ethics of censorship	p. 76
Theory, ethics, film	p. 91
Introduction to Section 2
Blinding visions: Levinas, ethics, faciality	p. 95
Deconstructive ethics: Derrida, Dreyer, responsibility	p. 107
Foucault in focus: Ethics, surveillance, soma	p. 120
The cinematic ethics of psychoanalysis: Futurity, death drive, desire	p. 134
What if we are post-ethical? Postmodernism's ethics and aesthetics	p. 147
Bibliography	p. 160
Index	p. 169
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