Dr Libby Saxton, BA, MPhil, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film.
Her research focuses on legacies of genocide and atrocity, philosophical ethics and critiques and defences of the image through the medium of cinema. Her first book, Haunted Images (Wallflower, 2008), reconsiders filmic and video responses to the Holocaust, including Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) and a section of Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-98), in the light of recent new debate in France about photographs and pieces of footage as witnesses to the camps.
Her published articles cover aftermaths of the Holocaust and other instances of political violence in contemporary cinema, Dr Libby Saxton, BA, MPhil, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film.
Her research focuses on legacies of genocide and atrocity, philosophical ethics and critiques and defences of the image through the medium of cinema. Her first book, Haunted Images (Wallflower, 2008), reconsiders filmic and video responses to the Holocaust, including Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) and a section of Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-98), in the light of recent new debate in France about photographs and pieces of footage as witnesses to the camps.
Her published articles cover aftermaths of the Holocaust and other instances of political violence in contemporary cinema, and she co-edited Holocaust Intersections (Legenda, 2013), on genocide in twenty-first-century visual culture, with Axel Bangert and Robert Gordon.
Film and Ethics (Routledge, 2010), co-authored with Lisa Downing, teases out the implicit ethics of canonical strands of film theory, reviews specific films through poststructuralist philosophical lenses, and covers her work on the ethico-politics of gesture....more