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Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosophers—Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, and the work of filmmaker Claire Denis. In an accessible and engaging manner, it offers new readings of Denis’ films, situating them within larger feminist, postcolonial and queer debates about identity and difference. Using a generative methodology, the book works towards a mutually challenging and productive relationship between cinematic ideas and philosophical concepts.
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.