Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

Sam B. Girgus

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Paper, 272 pages, 8 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14765-1
$27.50 / £19.00

April, 2010
Cloth, 272 pages, 8 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14764-4
$82.50 / £57.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Time, by Film

Chapter 1. American Transcendence: Levinas and a Short History of an American Idea in Film

Chapter 2. Frank Capra and James Stewart: Time, by Transcendence

Chapter 3. The Changing Face of American Redemption: Henry Fonda, by Marilyn Monroe

Chapter 4. Sex, by Art

Chapter 5. Fellini and La dolce vita: Documentary, by Decadence

Chapter 6. Antonioni and L’avventura: Transcendence, by the Body

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Film

Series

• Film and Culture Series

About the Author

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; 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 scholarly and teaching awards, he has lectured and taught extensively in universities throughout America and the world.

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