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23 produkter
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption
Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
Inbunden, 2010
1205 kr
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In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self. …
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption
Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
Häftad, 2010
298 kr
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In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self. …
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption
Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
E-bok, 2010
450 kr
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In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self.In …
Law of the Heart
Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature
Häftad, 1979
251 kr
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The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the “antidemocratic” image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this interpretation and attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal humanism …
The Films of Woody Allen
Häftad, 2002
604 kr
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The Films of Woody Allen was the first full-length work to examine the director as a serious filmmaker and artist. Sam Girgus argues that Allen has consistently been on the cutting edge of contemporary critical and cultural consciousness, challenging our notions of authorship, narrative, …
America on Film
Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America
Häftad, 2002
448 kr
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In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed drastically from that portrayed in American cinema up to the 1950s. In works such as Mississippi …
Hollywood Renaissance
The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Kapra, and Kazan
Häftad, 1998
448 kr
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American film directors from the late 1930s to the early 1960s instigated a renaissance of original artistic works that helped reinvigorate and renew American culture. During a time of unprecedented danger from anti-democratic forces both abroad and at home, the most imaginative and creative films …
The Films of Woody Allen
Inbunden, 2002
1365 kr
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The Films of Woody Allen was the first full-length work to examine the director as a serious filmmaker and artist. Sam Girgus argues that Allen has consistently been on the cutting edge of contemporary critical and cultural consciousness, challenging our notions of authorship, narrative, …
America on Film
Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America
Inbunden, 2002
1403 kr
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In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed drastically from that portrayed in American cinema up to the 1950s. In works such as Mississippi …
Clint Eastwood's America
Inbunden, 2013
776 kr
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The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona. …
Clint Eastwood's America
Häftad, 2013
218 kr
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The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona. …
Clint Eastwood's America
E-bok, 2014
261 kr
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The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona. …
New Covenant
Jewish Writers and the American Idea
Häftad, 2011
660 kr
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Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal. Abraham Cahan, Anzi Yezierska, …
Companion to Woody Allen
Av Sam B. Girgus, Peter J. Bailey
E-bok, 2013
3030 kr
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Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director’s films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which his work is understood. A timely companion by the authors of …
Companion to Woody Allen
Av Sam B. Girgus, Peter J. Bailey
E-bok, 2013
3030 kr
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Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director’s films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which his work is understood. A timely companion by the authors of …
Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature
Eros and Ideology
Av Sam B Girgus
E-bok, 1990
896 kr
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Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature
Eros and Ideology
Av Sam B Girgus
Häftad, 1990
633 kr
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Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image
Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film
Inbunden, 2018
2095 kr
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In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey’s theory of “delayed cinema” to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others. The sustained tension in film between, in …
Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image
Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film
Häftad, 2019
345 kr
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In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey’s theory of “delayed cinema” to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others. The sustained tension in film between, in …
Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America’s Soul
Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg
Inbunden, 2021
1205 kr
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From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors—William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew the American spirit by …
Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America's Soul
Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg
E-bok, 2021
1622 kr
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From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors—William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew the American spirit by …
Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America’s Soul
Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg
Häftad, 2022
992 kr
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From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors—William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew the American spirit by …
