In "Selfless Cinema?", Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of filmmaking are often examined on largely legalistic terms, dominated by issues of consent, responsibility, and participants' or film-makers' rights, but Cooper approaches four representative French film-makers - Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Raymond Depardon, and Agnes Varda - in a far less juridical way, drawing on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She argues that, in spite of Levinas' iconoclastic, anti-ocular thinking, his concept of visage is richly applicable to film, and especially to documentary.
- ISBN10 1904713122
- ISBN13 9781904713128
- Publish Date 1 October 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 January 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Legenda
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 112
- Language English