Levinas and the cinema of redemption : time, ethics, and the feminine /
Girgus, Sam B.,1941-
New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Lévinas, Emmanuel
Motion pictures
Motion pictures
Redemption in motion pictures.