Description |
xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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Film and culture |
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Film and culture.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : time, film, and the ethical vision of Emmanuel Levinas. American transcendence : Levinas and a short history of an American idea in film -- Frank Capra and James Stewart : time, transcendence, and the other -- The changing face of American redemption : Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, and Denzel Washington -- Sex, art, and Oedipus : The unbearable lightness of being -- Fellini and La dolce vita : documentary, decadence, and desire -- Antonioni and L'avventura : transcendence, the body, and the feminine. |
Subject |
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Redemption in motion pictures.
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ISBN |
9780231147644 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0231147643 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780231147651 (pbk : alk. paper) |
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0231147651 (pbk : alk. paper) |
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