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Just images : ethics and the cinematic / edited by Boaz Hagin [and others].

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 246 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Hagin, Boaz, 1973-
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Contents
Politics, multiculturalism and the ethical turn: The cinema of Faith Akin / Thomas Elsaesser -- I: Re-vision: Contested Pasts. Between Essay and midrash: Decription d'un Combat (Chris Marker, 1960) / Régine-Mihal Friedman -- The muddy path between Lebanon and Khirbet Khizeh: Trauma, ethics, and redemption in Israeli film literature / Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni -- (T)error in post-wall German cinema: Andreas Baader as the Last Action Hero of the '68 generation / Lihi Nagler -- War fantasies: Memory, trauma, and ethics in Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir / Raz Yosef -- II: Re-location, Dis-location -- Requiem for a Lost Planet: notes on Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana / Anton Kaes -- Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Palestinian Future Under the Eyes of Their Past / Judd Ne'eman -- Documentaries of return: "Unhomed Geographies" and the Moving imgage / Janet Walker -- The event and the responsibility of the image / Anat Zanger -- III: Archives of Pain, Shoah -- Cinematic archives and the rereading of European history in Forgács's Cinema: A filmmaker of the anonymous / Kristian Feigelson -- The ethics of "Contra-Lying" in narrative Holocaust films / Odeya Kohen-Raz -- IV: Genre, Myth, Fantasy -- A law's tale: John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / Gertrud Koch -- The (Po)Et(h)ics of horror: The Transvestite Killer Revisited / Sandra Meiri -- Documentary reenactment and the fantasmatic subject / Bill Nichols.
Summary
Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic charts current developments within the field of ethics and the role it plays in the study of moving images. It is the first collection of essays of its kind that brings together articles by film and media scholars from three continents, and provides multiple points of engagement of film with present and past histories, politics, myth making, and with core aspects of human subjectivity. The essays cover a wide range of topics, such as the European Union; E ...
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ISBN
1443830828 (electronic bk.)
9781443830829 (electronic bk.)
9781443828451
1443828459
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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