Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity

Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity deals with the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective, finding an intrinsic connection between film spectatorship and the possibility of being open to different modes of alterity. The book’s main thesis is that openness to otherness is already found in the basic structures of cinematic experience.

Through a close examination of the ethical relevance of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Stanley Cavell...