Movies and the moral adventure of life
- Title
- Movies and the moral adventure of life / Alan A. Stone ; foreword by Joshua Cohen.
- Published by
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007], ©2007.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 219 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "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 directors such as Sam Mendes, Marleen Gorris, and Wu Tian Ming who not only resist cynicism but offer us an enlarged sense of human possibility."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series statement
- A Boston review book
- Uniform title
- Boston review book.
- Subject
- 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. Redemption -- American beauty -- 9. Feet of clay -- Thirteen days -- 10. Moment of grace -- Thirteen conversations ... -- 11. Holy war -- The battle of Algiers -- 12. The content of our character -- The station agent -- 13. The end of remorse -- The passion of the Christ -- 14. For God and country -- Henry V -- 15. A forbidden hope -- Water.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries