Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics

Kristin Hole is a Lecturer in the School of Theater and Film at Portland State University.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Encounters, Intrusions: Denis, Levinas, NancyChapter 2 Film Interrupted: Denis, Nancy, and an Ethics of SenseChapter 3 Otherwise than Hollywood: Denis, Levinas, and An Aesthetic of AlterityChapter 4 Troubling the Body: Trouble Every Day, Dance, and the Non-Mythic BodyCodaBibliography

Attuned to what Kristin Hole describes as Denis’s cinema of ‘affective reorientation’ and ‘shared vulnerability and responsibility’, Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics offers fascinating reflections on connections between Denis, Nancy and Levinas, while drawing productively on contemporary feminist philosophies of ethics, co-existence and the body. An insightful, imaginative and lucid study.