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Irving Singer

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Description:Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are bothlarger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story.Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and intimate. Cinematic techniques--panning,tracking, zooming, and the other tools in the filmmaker's toolbox--create a world that is unlikereality and yet realistic at the same time. We are passive spectators, but we also have a personalrelationship with the images we are seeing. In Cinematic Mythmaking, Irving Singer explores thehidden and overt use of myth in various films and, in general, the philosophical elements of afilm's meaning. Mythological themes, Singer writes, perform a crucial role in cinematic art and evenphilosophy itself. Singer incisively disentangles the strands of different myths in the films hediscusses. He finds in Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve that Barbara Stanwyck's character is not justthe biblical Eve but a liberated woman of our times; Eliza Doolittle in the filmed versions ofShaw's Pygmalion is not just a statue brought to life but instead a heroic woman who must surviveher own dark night of the soul. The protagonist of William Wyler's The Heiress and AnieszkaHolland's Washington Square is both suffering Dido and an awakened Amazon. Singer reads Cocteau'sfilms--including La Belle et la Bête, Orphée, and The Testament of Orpheus--as uniquely mythologicalcinematic poetry. He compares Kubrickean and Homeric epics and analyzes in depth theself-referential mythmaking of Federico Fellini in many of his movies, including 8½. The aestheticand probing inventiveness in film, Singer shows us, restores and revives for audiences in thetwenty-first century myths of creation, of the questing hero, and of ideals--both secular andreligious--that have had enormous significance throughout the human search for love and meaning inlife.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film (Irving Singer Library). To get started finding Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film (Irving Singer Library), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are bothlarger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story.Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and intimate. Cinematic techniques--panning,tracking, zooming, and the other tools in the filmmaker's toolbox--create a world that is unlikereality and yet realistic at the same time. We are passive spectators, but we also have a personalrelationship with the images we are seeing. In Cinematic Mythmaking, Irving Singer explores thehidden and overt use of myth in various films and, in general, the philosophical elements of afilm's meaning. Mythological themes, Singer writes, perform a crucial role in cinematic art and evenphilosophy itself. Singer incisively disentangles the strands of different myths in the films hediscusses. He finds in Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve that Barbara Stanwyck's character is not justthe biblical Eve but a liberated woman of our times; Eliza Doolittle in the filmed versions ofShaw's Pygmalion is not just a statue brought to life but instead a heroic woman who must surviveher own dark night of the soul. The protagonist of William Wyler's The Heiress and AnieszkaHolland's Washington Square is both suffering Dido and an awakened Amazon. Singer reads Cocteau'sfilms--including La Belle et la Bête, Orphée, and The Testament of Orpheus--as uniquely mythologicalcinematic poetry. He compares Kubrickean and Homeric epics and analyzes in depth theself-referential mythmaking of Federico Fellini in many of his movies, including 8½. The aestheticand probing inventiveness in film, Singer shows us, restores and revives for audiences in thetwenty-first century myths of creation, of the questing hero, and of ideals--both secular andreligious--that have had enormous significance throughout the human search for love and meaning inlife.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film (Irving Singer Library). To get started finding Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film (Irving Singer Library), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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