Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Figures iv
4. Acknowledgements vi
5. Introduction: Textual Performances in Levinas and Film 1
6. PART I The Dardenne Brothers: An Ethics without Rest
7. Part I Introduction 27
8. CHAPTER 1 Je Pense à Vous and La Promesse: From Describing to Performing 33
9. CHAPTER 2 Levinasian Responsibility in Le Fils 50
10. CHAPTER 3 The Kid with a Bike and the Reframing of Ethics 69
11. PART II Barbet Schroeder: Devoted to the Other
12. Part II Introduction 83
13. CHAPTER 4 Maîtresse: Direction without Domination 89
14. CHAPTER 5 The Ethical and the Juridical in Reversal of Fortune and Terror’s Advocate 105
15. CHAPTER 6 Our Lady of the Assassins and Levinas’s Ethics as First Philosophy 129
16. PART III Paul Schrader: An Unexpected Ethics
17. Part III Introduction 145
18. CHAPTER 7 American Gigolo and the Ethics of Falling in Love 151
19. CHAPTER 8 Levinasian Limits of Performativity in Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 170
20. CHAPTER 9 Passivity and Responsibility in The Comfort of Strangers, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist and Adam Resurrected 187
21. Conclusion: Levinasian Films in the World 204
22. Notes 209
23. Bibliography 231
24. Index 241