The Eye of the Cinematograph (Paperback)

Paperback. The Eye of the Cinematograph investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of the automatic formation of the bodys image by the camera. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas thought, Manafi asks what happens when the other makes their body available to the gaze of the camera to be automatically recorded, and this giving of the body is preserved within the image, juxtaposed with other images to allude to a story that might otherwise remain untold.To locate the ethical at this intersection of the body and the aesthetic, this book articulates an ethical account of a diverse range of film theories to demonstrate alternative encounters with the other that realisms of the body offer. Manafi discusses works by Chantal Akerman, Bruno Dumont, Pedro Costa, Gus Van Sant, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Abbas Kiarostami, Amir Naderi, Jafar Panahi, Carlos Reygadas and Andy Warhol to make a case for the ethics and aesthetics of incompleteness and performative failure. Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…