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Film and Ethics
Foreclosed Encounters
by Lisa Downing and Libby Saxton
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Book Presentation:
Film & Ethics considers a range of films and texts of film criticism alongside disparate philosophical discourses of ethics by Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Lacanian psychoanalysts and postmodern theorists.
About the authors:
Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Exeter. Her publications include Patrice Leconte (2004), From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve, ed. with Sue Harris (2007), and The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (2008). Libby Saxton is Lecturer in French and Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is author of Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust (2008) and co-editor of Seeing Things: Vision, Perception and Interpretation in French Studies (2002).
Press Reviews:
'A fascinating examination of the way film, film-makers and spectators face, ignore, accept and challange established, as well as unlikely and surprising ethical dilemmas. A brilliant, comprehensive overview accompanied by revealing detailed analysis' - Times Higher Education
See the publisher website: Routledge
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