The Eye of the Cinematograph: L Vinas and Realisms of the Body

Keyvan Manafi

ISBN 10: 1399507249 / ISBN 13: 9781399507240

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

2023. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9781399507240

Inhaltsangabe:

The Eye of the Cinematograph investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of the automatic formation of the body’s image by the camera. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’ thought, Manafi asks what happens when the other makes their body available to the gaze of the camera to be automatically recorded, and this giving of the body is preserved within the image, juxtaposed with other images to allude to a story that might otherwise remain untold.
To locate the ethical at this intersection of the body and the aesthetic, this book articulates an ethical account of a diverse range of film theories to demonstrate alternative encounters with the other that realisms of the body offer. Manafi discusses works by Chantal Akerman, Bruno Dumont, Pedro Costa, Gus Van Sant, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Abbas Kiarostami, Amir Naderi, Jafar Panahi, Carlos Reygadas and Andy Warhol to make a case for the ethics and aesthetics of incompleteness and performative failure.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Keyvan Manafi completed his PhD in film and philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, where he currently works as an Arts academic programs advisor.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Eye of the Cinematograph: L Vinas and ...
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New