Performing Ethics Through Film Style
Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader
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Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader.
Discussing a range of films - including the Dardennes' Le Fils and The Kid with a Bike, Schroeder's Maîtresse and Reversal of Fortune and Schrader's American Gigolo and The Comfort of Strangers - Edward Lamberti demonstrates how film styles can perform a Levinasian ethics.
Edward Lamberti
Edward Lamberti is the author of Performing Ethics through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader and the editor of Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age. He has a PhD in film studies research from King's College London and is policy manager at the BBFC.
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