| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 193 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Ego Love and Melodrama; Categories of Film Love; Making Sense; The Ontology of Love; Eros in History; The Social Paradigm; American Cinema of Choice; French Cinema of Place; Hitchcock and Long; Love in the World; Conclusion: On Method; Filmography; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has been particularly well suited for depicting love in this way, in virtue of its special narrative language. This is a language of expression that has developed in the course of film his. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Love in motion pictures.
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Love in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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History. |
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Love -- Philosophy.
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Love -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Due, Reidar. Love in Motion : Erotic Relationships in Film. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231167338 |
| ISBN |
9780231850513 (electronic book) |
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0231850514 (electronic book) |
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