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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815494103321

Autore

Garcia Maria <1953->

Titolo

Cinematic quests for identity : the hero's encounter with the beast / / Maria Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-4697-9

1-4422-4698-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/653

791.43653

Soggetti

Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures

Heroes in motion pictures

Animals in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Framing the Beast of Individuation; Chapter 2. A Woman's Beast: The Silence of the Lambs; Chapter 3. The Male Quest: When the Hero Doesn't Get "The Girl"; Chapter 4. Love Affairs with the Beast: Two Women of Screwball Comedy; Chapter 5. The Beast of the Diamond; Chapter 6. The Child's Quest: A First Glimpse of Mortality; Chapter 7. Catherine Breillat and the Fairy Tale Quest as "Passage"; Chapter 8. Robert Bresson and the Feminine Face of God; Filmography; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the narrative and cinematic conventions of movies that are about the quest for identity and individuation. Chapters are devoted to individual films, such as La Belle et la Bête, The Silence of the Lambs, The Searchers, The Deer Hunter, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as considerations of films directed by Catherine Breillat and Robert Bresson.