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Ethics of cinematic experience : screens of alterity

Title
Ethics of cinematic experience : screens of alterity / Orna Raviv.
Author
Raviv, Orna
Publication
  • New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
  • ©2020

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163 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity deals with the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective, finding an intrinsic connection between film spectatorship and the possibility of being open to different modes of alterity. The book's main thesis is that openness to otherness is already found in the basic structures of cinematic experience. Through a close examination of the ethical relevance of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Stanley Cavell, Emmanuel Levinas and Gilles Deleuze to cinema studies, Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity pursues the question of how film can open the viewer to what is not her, and so bring her to encounter otherness in a way that is unique to cinematic experience. The book sees ethics as not just the subject, content or story of a film but part of its aesthetic structure. Accompanied by readings of films mainly from mainstream cinema, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the encounter with alterity through cinema. The book gives particular attention to how theoretical discussion of the cinematic close-up can lead to ethical insights into the status of both the human and the non-human in film, and thus lead to an understanding of the relationships the viewer makes with them. The book is a helpful resource for students and scholars interested in the relationship between philosophy, film and ethics, and is appropriate for students of philosophy and media and cultural studies"--
Series Statement
Routledge advances in film studies
Uniform Title
Routledge advances in film studies.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
Contents
Perspectivalism and beyond -- Point of view -- The cinematic type -- The face and the close-up -- The face and the close-up -- take 2 -- Becoming machine -- Cinema's responsibilities.
Call Number
MFL 20-970
ISBN
  • 9781138370685
  • 1138370681
LCCN
  • 2019029109
  • 40029555712
OCLC
1107849855
Author
Raviv, Orna, author.
Title
Ethics of cinematic experience : screens of alterity / Orna Raviv.
Publisher
New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Routledge advances in film studies
Routledge advances in film studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Raviv, Orna, Ethics of cinematic experience 1. Abingdon, Oxon, UK; New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780429427893 (DLC) 2019029110
Other Standard Identifier
40029555712
Research Call Number
MFL 20-970
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