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- Title
Otherness and the Renewal of Freedom in Jarmusch's Down by Law: A Levinasian and Arendtian Reading.
- Authors
Cauchi, Mark
- Abstract
A film criticism is provided for the 1986 film "Down by Law" directed by Jim Jarmusch. Topics discussed include the film's use of the other and the ways in which the other renews freedom and identity for the other characters, the impact of poetry on Jarmusch's films, and the work of French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and Germany-American political theorist Hannah Arendt.
- Subjects
DOWN by Law (Film); JARMUSCH, Jim, 1953-; OTHER (Philosophy) in motion pictures; LIBERTY in motion pictures; IDENTITY (Psychology) in motion pictures; POETRY (Literary form); LEVINAS, Emmanuel, 1906-1995; ARENDT, Hannah, 1906-1975; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Film-Philosophy, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 1, p193
- ISSN
1466-4615
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.3366/film.2013.0011