Movies and the moral adventure of life / Alan A. Stone ; foreword by Joshua Cohen.
Movies and the moral adventure of life / Alan A. Stone ; foreword by Joshua Cohen.
Movies and the moral adventure of life / Alan A. Stone ; foreword by Joshua Cohen.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
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N791.43/302
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 219 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents
1. Believing in love -- Un Coeur en Hiver -- 2. Hollywood and Holocaust -- Schindler's list -- 3. A second nature -- Antonia's line -- 4. A laughing matter -- Pulp fiction -- 5. Seeing pink -- Ma Vie en Rose -- 6. Selling (out) Nabokov -- Lolita -- 7. Happily ever after -- The king of masks -- 8. Re...
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
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Massachusetts
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c2007.
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"Whether writing about foreign films or blockbusters, Pulp Fiction or Ma Vie en Rose, Alan A. Stone shows us how great movies capture what it means to be human. Stone, a psychiatrist and scholar, judges films by the quality of their engagement with the universal struggle against the constraints of character and circumstance. With him, we applaud di...
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Movies and the moral adventure of life / Alan A. Stone ; foreword by Joshua Cohen.
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A Boston review book.
"A Boston Review book."
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N791.43/302
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74VKzXDylLoX
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0262195674 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780262195676 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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791.43
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991023475419702626
