1. Beyond critical partisanship: ethical witnessing and long takes of sexual violence.
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Kenny, Oliver
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PARTISANSHIP ,RAPE ,WITNESS ethics ,MOTION pictures - Abstract
Noting the use of long takes in controversial scenes of sexual violence in 'new extreme' films, this article considers the ethical ramifications of such stylistic choices in Irreversible and The Tribe. In these long takes, I suggest we see the alterable 'process' rather than the unalterable 'unity' of a scene's action; these scenes thus interpellate an ethical witness who fulfils the ethical obligations of the witness without being physically present. I explore the problematic power position made possible by this absent ethical witness to suggest a way of moving beyond the entrenched partisan positions that exemplify many accounts of new extreme films and depictions of sexual violence more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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