Selfless Cinema?

Ethics and French Documentary
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-904713-12-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Lévinas 's Ethical Vision, 2 Knowing Images: Jean Rouch's Ethnography, 3 Chris Marker: Love, Death and Documentary, 4 Raymond Depardon: Finding the Right Distance, 5 Film Portraits: From Jane B. to Agnès V, Concluding Remarks, Filmography, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Cooper