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Levinas and the cinema of redemption : time, ethics, and the feminine
- Title
- Levinas and the cinema of redemption : time, ethics, and the feminine / Sam B. Girgus.
- Author
- Girgus, Sam B., 1941-
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 256 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Film and culture
- Uniform Title
- Film and culture.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 10-3256
- ISBN
- 9780231147644 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231147643 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231147651 (pbk : alk. paper)
- 0231147651 (pbk : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009045451
- OCLC
- YBP 2009045451
- Author
- Girgus, Sam B., 1941-
- Title
- Levinas and the cinema of redemption : time, ethics, and the feminine / Sam B. Girgus.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.
- Series
- Film and cultureFilm and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 10-3256