1st Edition

Ethics of Cinematic Experience Screens of Alterity

By Orna Raviv Copyright 2020
176 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity deals with the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective, finding an intrinsic connection between film spectatorship and the possibility of being open to different modes of alterity. The book’s main thesis is that openness to otherness is already found in the basic structures of cinematic experience. Through a... Read more

Introduction

Chapter One: Perspectivalism and Beyond

Chapter Two: Point of View

Chapter Three: The Cinematic Type

Chapter Four: The Face and the Close-Up

Chapter Five: The Face and the Close-Up—Take 2

Chapter Six: Becoming Machine

Chapter Seven: Cinema’s Responsibilities

Biography

Orna Raviv is a filmmaker and a film theorist. She is an assistant teaching professor at the Unit for History and Philosophy of Art, Design and Technology, Shenkar College, and a teaching fellow at the Philosophy Department of Haifa University.