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Understanding love : philosophy, film, and fiction / edited by Susan Wolf and Christopher Grau.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love in motion pictures.
- Romance films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (412 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A unique and interdisciplinary collection in which scholars from Philosophy join those from Film Studies, English, and Comparative Literature to explore the nature and limits of love through in-depth reflection on particular works of literature and film.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Grizzly Man, Sentimentality, and Our Relationships With Other Animals""; ""2. False Racial Symmetries in Far From Heaven and Elsewhere""; ""3. The Untold Want of Now, Voyager""; ""4. Communicating Love: Ian McEwan, Saturday, and Personal Affection in the Information Age""; ""5. Love, Loss, and Identity in Solaris""; ""6. Embarrassing Fathers""; ""7. Projected Love""; ""8. Between Desire and Destruction: A Reading of The Go-Between""
- ""9. “Something That Might Resemble a Kind of Love�: Fantasy and Realism in Henrik Ibsen�s Little Eyolf""""10. Rousseau�s Julie: Passion, Love, and the Price of Virtue""; ""11. Sherman�s March: Romantic Love in Documentary Films""; ""12. Hitchcock�s Family Romance: Allegory in Shadow of a Doubt""; ""13. Lessons in Looking: Krzysztof Kieslowski�s A Short Film About Love""; ""14. Talking Back to Hollywood: Ordinary Love Stories on Film, 1946�1964""; ""15. Dipping Into Omniscience With Willa Cather: Authorial Knowledge as Love""
- ""16. Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: Pastiche in The Man Who Wasn�t There""""17. Loving Attention: Lessons in Love From The Philadelphia Story""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 8, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987469-7
- OCLC:
- 922972525
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