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Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image: Ethics Emergence to Being Film
Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image: Ethics Emergence to Being Film
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In
, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey’s theory of “delayed cinema” to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others. The sustained tension in film between, in Mulvey’s phrase, “stillness and the moving image” enacts a drama of existential emergence. The stillness of the framed image in relation to the moving image opens “free” cinematic time and space for a fresh engagement with crucial ethical and cultural issues. With close readings of films such as
and
, this book proposes a fresh approach to reading film in the context of emerging existential presence and the ethical imperative.