
The Eye of the Cinematograph
Levinas and Realisms of the Body
By: Keyvan Manafi
Paperback | 11 March 2025
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The Eye of the Cinematograph investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of the automatic formation of the body's 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.
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The Eye of the Cinematograph demonstrates beautifully what Levinas can bring to film-philosophy - a cinematic ethics evoking the alterity of the Other. Bringing Levinas and Bazin together, Manafi explores the ethical potential of spectatorship, the realisms of the body, and the ethical epiphany possible through film. An eloquent, impressive work.
--Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie UniversityManafi's monograph is a commendable example of a graduate dissertation manifesting into a monograph. [...] Through Manafi's attempts to render Levinas' ethics through the lens of cinema (a bold gesture against the grain of the philosopher's own general dissociation from the arts), he helps to showcase new encounters with the cinematic image, in an effort to bring further understanding to the often ineffable cinematic image that keeps us returning with renewed inquiry and openness.
--M. Sellers Johnson "Senses Of Cinema"Proposing a novel marriage between Bazinian realism and Levinasian philosophy, Keyvan Manafi's The Eye of the Cinematograph compellingly asks us to look closely at the filmed body in all its promises and indeterminacies. This is an elegantly written book that sheds new light on the confluences between film ethics, nonprofessional acting and durational cinema.
--Tiago de Luca, University of WarwickISBN: 9781399507257
ISBN-10: 1399507257
Available: 11th March 2025
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.36
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