Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters / Edition 1

by Lisa Downing, Libby Saxton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415409278
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/08/2009
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 of Seeing Things: Vision, Perception and Interpretation in French Studies (2002).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction 1

Section 1 Representation and spectatorship 17

Introduction to Section 1

1 'Tracking shots are a question of morality': Ethics, aesthetics, documentary Libby Saxton 22

2 Testing positive: Gender, sexuality, representation Lisa Downing 36

3 The South looks back: Ethics, race, postcolonialism Libby Saxton 50

4 Ethics, spectatorship and the spectacle of suffering Libby Saxton 62

5 Pornography and the ethics of censorship Lisa Downing 76

Section 2 Theory, ethics, film 91

Introduction to Section 2

6 Blinding visions: Levinas, ethics, faciality Libby Saxton 95

7 Deconstructive ethics: Derrida, Dreyer, responsibility Libby Saxton 107

8 Foucault in focus: Ethics, surveillance, soma Lisa Downing 120

9 The cinematic ethics of psychoanalysis: Futurity, death drive, desire Lisa Downing 134

10 What if we are post-ethical? Postmodernism's ethics and aesthetics Lisa Downing 147

Bibliography 160

Index 169