Description
| Product ID: | 9781032176772 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Film Studies |
| Title: | Ethics of Cinematic Experience |
| Subtitle: | Screens of Alterity |
| Authors: | Author: Orna Raviv |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Media studies, Media studies |
| Description: | This book examines the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective. It argues that theoretical discussion of the cinematic experience and more specifically of the cinematic close-up, can lead to ethical insights into the status of both the human and the non-human in film. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-30 |
