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Cinematic Quests for Identity - The Hero''s Encounter With the Beast

English · Hardback

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This book examines the narrative and cinematic conventions of movies that are about the quest for identity and individuation. Chapters are devoted to individual films, such as La Belle et la Bête, The Silence of the Lambs, The Searchers, The Deer Hunter, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as considerations of films directed by Catherine Breillat and Robert Bresson.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Framing the Beast of Individuation
2. A Woman's Beast: The Silence of the Lambs
3. The Male Quest: When the Hero Doesn't Get "The Girl"
4. Love Affairs with the Beast: Two Women of Screwball Comedy
5. The Beast of the Diamond
6. The Child's Quest: A First Glimpse of Mortality
7. Catherine Breillat and the Fairy Tale Quest as "Passage"
8. Robert Bresson and the Feminine Face of God
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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Maria Garcia is a film critic, feature writer, and an adjunct lecturer in the English Department at CUNY Baruch College. Her reviews and filmmaker interviews appear regularly in Cineaste and Film Journal International.

Summary

This book examines the narrative and cinematic conventions of movies that are about the quest for identity and individuation. Chapters are devoted to individual films, such as La Belle et la Bete, The Silence of the Lambs, The Searchers, The Deer Hunter, and The Picture of Dor...

Product details

Authors Maria Garcia, Garcia Maria
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 02.04.2015
 
EAN 9781442246973
ISBN 978-1-4422-4697-3
No. of pages 284
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV

PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism

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