Rules and ethics

Rules and ethicsThis book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the worlds ethical traditions. A valuable theoretical introduction sets the agenda for a series of comparative studies, spanning pre modern Hindu ethics, Classical Rome and Christian casuistry, contemporary Judaism and the Islamic sharia.

The book also provides an analysis of the major works of three European directors – Billy Wilder

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and other beings on the planet

remembering (or imagining) and creating an archive

First collection of essays on the subject with a wide historical coverage including major figures

Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living film director in France'

the book explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives

oppression and despair

marginality

the interaction of party and state

Fully revised and updated

Reflecting French cinema's diversity since the new Wave