Nash, K (2011) Documentary-for-the-Other: Relationships, Ethics and (Observational) Documentary. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 26 (3). 224 - 239 (15). ISSN 0890-0523
Abstract
While documentary ethics has been largely normative to date, there is growing interest in alternative forms of ethical thinking. The work of Emmanuel Levinas in particular is providing a way of thinking through both the ethics of docu- mentary viewing and production. This article begins by drawing attention to the link between documentary ethics and aesthetics and then uses Levinas’s work to consider the ethical relations established in observational documentary production. Of the different documentary modes, the observational has been the source of particular ethical difficulties, yet viewed from a Levinisian perspective it is possible to identify ways in which observation preserves the alterity of the documentary subject.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Ethics; documentary; aesthetics; Levinas |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2013 09:27 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2014 02:51 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2011.581971 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge: Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/08900523.2011.581971 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:76686 |