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  • Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

    Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

    by Sam Girgus ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self.In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image

    Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film

    by Sam B. Girgus ...

    $30.99 CAD

  • Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America’s Soul

    Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg

    by Sam B. Girgus ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors—William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew the American spirit by insisting that America must live up to its values and ideals. These directors accentuate the ethical ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Clint Eastwood's America

    by Sam B. Girgus ...
    Series series America Through the Lens
    The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona. Eastwood responds to a national yearning for a vision of individual action and initiative, personal ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Batman and Philosophy

    The Dark Knight of the Soul

    by William Irwin ...
    Series Book 2 - The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    Why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone's misery?Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions?Is Batman better than Superman?If everyone followed Batman's example,would Gotham be a better place?What is the Tao of the Bat?Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. What philosophical trials does this ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Superheroes and Philosophy

    Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way

    by Tom Morris, Matt Morris ...
    Series Book 13 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The comic book naratives of superheroes wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways: the definitions of good and evil, the limits of violence as an effective means, the perils of enforcing justice outside the law, the metaphysics of personal identity, and the definition of humanity.Superheroes and Philosophy tackles these and other philosophical questions in an intellectual yet ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

    How to Philosophize with a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch

    by Richard Greene, K. Silem Mohammad ...
    Series Book 29 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time. In this witty collection of articles, no subject is too taboo for the writers to tackle. From an aesthetic meditation on the use of spraying blood in Kill Bill to the conundrum of translation and ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Reel to Real

    Race, Sex and Class at the Movies

    by bell hooks ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks – one of America’s most celebrated and thrilling cultural critics – talks back to ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Hitchcock and Philosophy

    Dial M for Metaphysics

    Edited by David Baggett, William A. Drumin ...
    Series Book 27 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; innocent” birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching - these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives. But what makes them so? What deeper forces are at work in Hitchcock’s films that so captivate his fans? This collection of articles in the series that’s explored such pop-culture ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • David Cronenberg's A History of Violence

    by Bart Beaty ...
    Arguably the most famous and critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, David Cronenberg is celebrated equally for his early genre films, like Scanners (1981) and The Fly (1986), and his dark artistic vision in films such as Dead Ringers (1988) and Crash (1996). The 2005 film A History of Violence was a mainstream success that marked Cronenberg's return to the commercial fold of Hollywood after ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • The Superhero Reader

    Edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond

    by Robin Wood ...
    This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a substantial new preface that explores the interesting double context within which the book can be ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD