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9781904713128

Selfless Cinema?: Ethics and French Documentary

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  • ISBN13:

    9781904713128

  • ISBN10:

    1904713122

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-10-01
  • Publisher: Routledge
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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 on 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' iconoclastic, anti-ocular thinking, his concept of visage is richly applicable to film, and especially to documentary.

Author Biography

Sarah Cooper is Lecturer in Film at King's College London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1(14)
Levinas's Ethical Vision
15(16)
Knowing Images: Jean Rouch's Ethnography
31(17)
Chris Marker: Love, Death and Documentary
48(14)
Raymond Depardon: Finding the Right Distance
62(15)
Film Portraits: From Jane B. to Agnes V
77(18)
Concluding Remarks
91(4)
Filmography 95(1)
Bibliography 96(5)
Index 101

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