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Levinas and the cinema of redemption
2010
Overview
In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas
highlighted the tension that exists between the \"ontological
adventure\" of immediate experience and the \"ethical adventure\" of
redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute
responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self.
In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam
B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a variety of international
films. His efforts point to a transnational pattern he terms the
\"cinema of redemption\" that portrays the struggle to connect to
others in redeeming ways. Girgus not only reveals the power of
these films to articulate the crisis between ontological identity
and ethical subjectivity. He also locates time and ethics within
the structure and content of film itself. Drawing on the work of
Luce Irigaray, Tina Chanter, Kelly Oliver, and Ewa Ziarek, Girgus
reconsiders Levinas and his relationship to film, engaging with a
feminist focus on the sexualized female body. Girgus offers fresh
readings of films from several decades and cultures, including
Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939),
Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), Michelangelo
Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), John Huston's The
Misfits (1961), and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable
Lightness of Being (1988).
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780231147651, 0231147651, 0231147643, 9780231147644, 0231519494, 9780231519496
