Cinema, media, and human flourishing / Timothy Corrigan.
"The range of topics in this volume covers a multitude of historical periods and topics, which in turn figure in the new media environments of contemporary life. These include discussions of the Aristotelian and classical models of a "good life" that inform animated fairy tales today,...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Humanities and human flourishing.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "The range of topics in this volume covers a multitude of historical periods and topics, which in turn figure in the new media environments of contemporary life. These include discussions of the Aristotelian and classical models of a "good life" that inform animated fairy tales today, 1930s French and Hollywood films which respond to the dire need for productive human relationships in a turbulent decade, the polemical positions of black film criticism through the lens of James Baldwin's work, a discussion of contemporary filmic quests for happiness, the challenges for women filmmakers today in mapping the values of their own world, landscapes of austerity and poverty in the cinematic homelands today, the scientific, psychological, and philosophical base for human value, and the shifting media frames of modern society and selves"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197624219 9780197624210 |