Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption - Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study! Sam Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a variety of international films. His effort points to a transnational pattern he terms the 'cinema of redemption'! a genre that portrays the struggle to connect to others in redeeming ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Time! by FilmChapter 1. American Transcendence: Levinas and a Short History of an American Idea in FilmChapter 2. Frank Capra and James Stewart: Time! by TranscendenceChapter 3. The Changing Face of American Redemption: Henry Fonda! by Marilyn MonroeChapter 4. Sex! by ArtChapter 5. Fellini and La dolce vita: Documentary! by DecadenceChapter 6. Antonioni and L'avventura: Transcendence! by the BodyNotesIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sam Girgus, Sam B. Girgus
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.04.2010
• EAN: 9780231147644
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14764-4
• Seiten: 272
• Serien: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Philosophy: aesthetics, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Dance & Other Performing Arts, Film history, theory or criticism, Philosophy; movements; film