Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
(Sprache: Englisch)
In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. 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...
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In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. 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. Girgus not only reveals the power of these films to articulate the crisis between ontological identity and ethical subjectivity. He also locates time and ethics within the structure and content of film itself. Drawing on the work of Luce Irigaray, Tina Chanter, Kelly Oliver, and Ewa Ziarek, Girgus reconsiders Levinas and his relationship to film, adapting the intellectual's theory to engage a feminist focus on the sexualized female body. Girgus offers fresh readings of films from several decades and cultures, including Frank Capra's Mr. 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).
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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
Autoren-Porträt von Sam B. Girgus
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; and Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sam B. Girgus
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 22 Jahre
- 2010, 256 Seiten, Maße: 15 x 23,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0231147651
- ISBN-13: 9780231147651
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Sam B. Girgus does what few scholars adopting an interdisciplinary approach achieve¿he closely and clearly shows the inextricable relationship between form, content, and meaning. I can't commend Girgus enough for his ability to unearth the most profound and affecting insights within the films he discusses. His readings are models of the very best in film analysis. Truly an outstanding achievement." ¿ Cynthia Lucia, Rider University
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