TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manafi, Keyvan
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Eye of the Cinematograph: Lévinas and Realisms of the Body
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
CY  - Edinburgh
KW  - Human body in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
AB  - Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas’ ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the bodyPresents an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film studies, philosophies of ethics, cultural studies and critical theory to contribute to the fields of film-philosophy and cinematic thinkingExpands the existing enquiries into the consequences of Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy for aesthetics and draws out a new encounter between his ethical thought and filmMakes a case for the hospitality of the cinematic image by investigating its unique visual being as a gift and proposes an affirmative account of the ethics of the cinematograph through discussions of cinematic realismThe 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
SN  - 9781399507264
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781399507264
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781399507264/original
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399507264
DO  - 10.1515/9781399507264
LA  - English
N1  - Keyvan Manafi
ID  - 1841622443
ER  -