Le « spectre » éthique du film comme phénomène de communication

This article seeks to use the analysis of “impersonal enunciation” in cinema to develop paths toward the question of ethics in film. First are presented some elementary aspects of film as a phenomenon of communication. Secondly, we submit the existence of an “impersonal” or “spectral” ethics in the film taken as a text. Communication in cinema supposes that, on the receiving end, the reader is more or less free to interpret the message, and an “impersonal” ethics would be measured according to the type of invitation that the spectator receives from the film. This invitation manifests itself through the “content and expression planes,” which are considered here in connection with directivity. The correlation of these planes is considered in its variable tensivity: since it is more or less directive on the content and expression planes, the filmic text is more or less “programmatic” or “thematic,” more or less “enunciative” or “enuncive.” The type of relation that the sender and the text maintain with the receiver is thus defined, as well as, consequently, the ethical aspect of the filmic communication process.

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