Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life

preview-18
  • Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life Book Detail

  • Author : Alan A. Stone
  • Release Date : 2007-08-17
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Genre : Performing Arts
  • Pages : 241
  • ISBN 13 : 0262261189
  • File Size : 29,29 MB

Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life by Alan A. Stone PDF Summary

Book Description: Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia's Line, American Beauty, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities. For Alan Stone, a one-time Freudian analyst and former president of the American Psychiatric Society, movies are the great modern, democratic medium for exploring our individual and collective lives. They provide occasions for reflecting on what he calls “the moral adventure of life”: the choices people make—beyond the limits of their character and circumstances—in response to life's challenges. The quality of these choices is, for him, the measure of a life well lived. In this collection of his film essays, Stone reads films as life texts. He is engaged more by their ideas than their visual presentation, more by their power to move us than by their commercial success. Stone writes about both art films and big-budget Hollywood blockbusters. And he commands an extraordinary range of historical, literary, cultural, and scientific reference that reflects his impressive personal history: professor of law and medicine, football player at Harvard in the late 1940s, director of medical training at McLean Hospital, and advisor to Attorney General Janet Reno on behavioral science. In the end, Stone's enthusiasms run particularly to films that embrace the sheer complexity of life, and in doing so enlarge our sense of human possibilities: in Antonia's Line, he sees an emotionally vivid picture of a world beyond patriarchy; in Thirteen Conversations about One Thing, the power of sheer contingency in human life; and in American Beauty, how beauty in ordinary experience draws us outside ourselves, and how beauty and justice are distinct goods, with no intrinsic connection. Other films discussed in these essays (written between 1993 and 2006 for Boston Review) include Un Coeur en Hiver, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Thirteen Days, the 1997 version of Lolita, The Battle of Algiers, The Passion of the Christ, Persuasion, and Water.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life

Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 1967 Views
DOWNLOAD

Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia's Line, American Beauty, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view fil

The Moral Premise

The Moral Premise

File Size : 9,9 MB
Total View : 8324 Views
DOWNLOAD

'The Moral Premise: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success' reveals the foundational concept at the heart of all successful box office movies and oth

Immigrants and the Right to Stay

Immigrants and the Right to Stay

File Size : 53,53 MB
Total View : 201 Views
DOWNLOAD

A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status. The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigra

Reel Parables

Reel Parables

File Size : 3,3 MB
Total View : 8986 Views
DOWNLOAD

"This book takes on topics where critics fear to tread, into the moral and religious areas of life that really matter to ordinary people." James Hogan takes twe

Thinking Through Film

Thinking Through Film

File Size : 80,80 MB
Total View : 3726 Views
DOWNLOAD

THINKING THROUGH FILM Thinking Through Film provides the best introduction available to the diverse relationships between film and philosophy. Clearly written a