Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics: Claire Denis, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy

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Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosophers-Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, and the work of filmmaker Claire Denis. In an accessible and engaging manner, it offers new readings of Denis' films, situating them within larger feminist, postcolonial and queer debates about identity and difference. Using a generative methodology, the book works towards a mutually challenging and productive relationship between cinematic ideas and philosophical concepts. Towards A Feminist Cinematic Ethics......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 1 Encounters, Intrusions: Denis, Levinas, Nancy......Page 12 2 Film Interrupted: Denis, Nancy And An Ethics Of Sense......Page 48 3 Otherwise Than Hollywood: Denis, Levinas And An Aesthetic Of Alterity......Page 97 4 Troubling The Body: Trouble Every Day, Dance And The Non-Mythic Body......Page 128 Coda......Page 170 Bibliography......Page 172 Index......Page 182