Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-14765-1 (ISBN)
Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), John Huston's The Misfits (1961), and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).
Sam B. Girgus is professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan; The Films of Woody Allen; America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America; Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology; The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea; and The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature. A recipient of the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship and other scholarly and teaching awards, he has lectured and taught extensively in universities throughout America and the world.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Time, by Film 1. American Transcendence: Levinas and a Short History of an American Idea in Film 2. Frank Capra and James Stewart: Time, Transcendence, and the Other 3. The Changing Face of American Redemption: Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, and Denzel Washington 4. Sex, Art, and Oedipus: The Unbearable Lightness of Being 5. Fellini and La dolce vita: Documentary, Decadence, and Desire 6. Antonioni and L'avventura: Transcendence, the Body, and the Feminine Notes Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.4.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | Film and Culture Series |
Zusatzinfo | 8 illus. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-231-14765-1 / 0231147651 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-14765-1 / 9780231147651 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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