Performing ethics through film style : Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader /

Lamberti, Edward,

Performing ethics through film style : Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader / Edward Lamberti. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of Barbet Schroeder, Paul Schrader and the Dardenne Brothers.

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LĂ©vinas, Emmanuel.
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre, 1951- --Criticism and interpretation.
Dardenne, Luc, 1954- --Criticism and interpretation.
Schrader, Paul, 1946- --Criticism and interpretation.
Schroeder, Barbet--Criticism and interpretation.


Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.
Motion pictures--Production and direction--Philosophy.

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