Cinema and evil : moral complexities and the "dangerous" film / / by Dara Waldron
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Waldron Dara
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| Titolo: |
Cinema and evil : moral complexities and the "dangerous" film / / by Dara Waldron
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| Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43653 |
| Soggetto topico: | Evil in motion pictures |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography. |
| Nota di contenuto: | TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - 'TRYING TO SEE DARKNESS'; Augustine and Theology; Responsibility; The Cathars; Paradise Lost; The Language of 'Sin'; Milton and Augustine; Kant and the Moral Law; Immoral Action; The Act of Evil; Interlude on Good and Evil; Lacan and Evil; In Finale: Kant avec Bataille; CHAPTER TWO - THE 'DISCOURSE ON EVIL' IN FRITZ LANG''S M (1931) AND ORSON WELLES''S TOUCH OF EVIL (1958); Introduction; M and Evil; Confessions; Welles and the Law; Welles and the Noir Landscape; Nothing but Desire; Conclusion: Desire and Evil |
| CHAPTER THREE - PASOLINI AND THE REMNANTS OF NEOREALISMThe Remnants of Neo-Realism; The Beatific Vision and Pasolini's 'Nightmare'; The Messianic Intruder; Saló and the Ethical Test; Conclusion: 'Til Death Do Us Part; CHAPTER FOUR - 'STRIKE DEAR MISTRESS AND CURE HIS HEART''; Introduction; Masochism and the Law; Christology and Moral Crisis; Conclusion: The Fascist Within; Epilogue: Cavani and Evil; CHAPTER FIVE - 'BARBARISM BEGINS AT HOME'; The Evil That Young Men Do; Mea Culpa (and I Don't Care)/ or: Haneke's Cosmology; Haneke the Augustinian; CHAPTER SIX - DOLI INCAPAX? | |
| Friends and EnemiesEyes Wide Shut?; CHAPTER SEVEN - SEEING AND FAILING TO SEE AGAIN; After Saló; Banal or Radical Evil?; CONCLUSION; POSTSCRIPT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FILMOGRAPHY | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Malevolence (and its causes) has been central to film since its inception; the birth of film coinciding with a fascination with crime, death, murder, horror, etc. Films which address the problem of evil, however, are less frequent and fewer in quantity; especially films which respond to a body of thought - philosophical or theological - which has deliberated on the topic of evil over the centuries. Cinema and Evil: Moral Responsibility and the ""Dangerous"" Film addresses these films. It explor... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cinema and evil |
| ISBN: | 1-4438-6558-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465294203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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