
Love in Motion
Erotic Relationships in Film
Reidar Due(Author)
Wallflower Press
Published on 12. November 2013
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-231-16732-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 history. The book spans this history from early silent directors such as Joseph von Sternberg to contemporary filmmakers like Sophia Coppola. At the centre of this study is a comparison between Classical French and American love films of the forties and a series of modernist films by Luis Bunuel, Francois Truffaut and Wong Kar Wai.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Columbia University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
15 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-16732-1 (9780231167321)
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Reidar Due teaches Film Aesthetics and is Fellow in French at Magdalen College, Oxford University. He has previously published on Jean-Paul Sartre and Gilles Deleuze, and his research centers on the ontology of modern art and the relationship between phenomenology and ethics.
Content
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 Lang Love in the World Conclusion: On Method Filmography Bibliography Index