Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption
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Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

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Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

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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).

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780231519496
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Half title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents 
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Time, Film, and the Ethical Vision of Emmanuel Levinas
  10. Chapter 1: American Transcendence
  11. Chapter 2: Frank Capra and James Stewart
  12. Chapter 3: The Changing Face of American Redemption
  13. Chapter 4: Sex, Art, and Oedipus
  14. Chapter 5: Fellini and La Dolce Vita
  15. Chapter 6: Antonioni and L’Avventura
  16. Notes
  17. Index