Levinas and the cinema of redemption
Subtitle: time, ethics, and the feminine / Sam B. Girgus.
Series: Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231147644; 9780231147651; 9780231519496
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Criticism and interpretation; Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects; Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Redemption in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : time, film, and the ethical vision of Emmanuel Levinas. American transcendence : Levinas and a short history of an American idea in film; title: Frank Capra and James Stewart : time, transcendence, and the other; title: The changing face of American redemption : Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, and Denzel Washington; title: Sex, art, and Oedipus : The unbearable lightness of being; title: Fellini and La dolce vita : documentary, decadence, and desire; title: Antonioni and L'avventura : transcendence, the body, and the feminine.