{"product_id":"haunting-the-left-bank-mortality-and-intersubjectivity-in-varda-resnais-and-marker-9781800796676","title":"Haunting the Left Bank: Mortality and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e«A significant and astute contribution whose insights across film studies, philosophy, and feminism demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Left Bank filmmakers Varda, Resnais and Marker.»\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Steven Ungar, Professor Emeritus, Department of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngaging with contemporary film-philosophical research, this book investigates the effects of a haunting presence of death in life. It considers moments in which the films of Agnès Varda, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais and theories of intersubjectivity, gender and mortality in contemporaneous works by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Merleau-Ponty coalesce around this ethical epicentre, the equality enacted by death on every mortal. Challenging hierarchical divisions between subjects constructed around geo-political, gendered or spectatorial difference, it establishes a paradigm in which intersubjective interactions, especially through the gaze, are instead ethical and egalitarian. \u003ci\u003eHaunting the Left Bank \u003c\/i\u003eidentifies and explores the presence of mortality in these directors’ cinematic images, revealing how they indicate ways of connecting with other subjects and speaking to a recognition of equality and difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: Sartre’s Conflictual Subject versus Beauvoir’s Equivocal I: War, Illness and the Death of the Other – Levinasian Alterity: Resisting Objectifications of the Feminine Figure and Death – Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Perception and the Chiasmic Relation: The Overlap between Subject and Other and Life and Death – Becoming Conclusive: Death and Gender in the Intersubjective Relation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042761736535,"sku":"9781800796676","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800796676.jpg?v=1750955520","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/haunting-the-left-bank-mortality-and-intersubjectivity-in-varda-resnais-and-marker-9781800796676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}