Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption
by Girgus, Sam B.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-04-15
Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr
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Summary
In his work on 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.
Author Biography
Sam B. Girgus is professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author or Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan; The Films of Woody Allen; American on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America; Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology; The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea; and The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature. A recipient of the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship and other awards, he has lectured and taught extensively throughout American and the World.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. IX |
| Introduction: Time, Film, and the Ethical Vision of Emmanuel Levinas | p. 1 |
| American Transcendence: Levinas and a Short History of an American Idea in Film | p. 25 |
| Time, Transcendence, and the Other | p. 49 |
| The Changing Face of American Redemption | p. 77 |
| Sex, Art. And Oedipus: The Unbearable Lightness of Being | p. 113 |
| Fellini and La Dolce Vita: Documentary, Decadence, And Desire | p. 144 |
| Antonion! And L'avventura: Transcendence, the Body, and the Feminine | p. 168 |
| Notes | p. 219 |
| Index | p. 243 |
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