Life, Myth, and the American Family Unreeling: The Spiritual Significance of Movies for the 20th CenturyUniversal-Publishers, 2005 - 330 pàgines This book is about what movies do for us. It is about how movies exhibit the contradictions, truths, and fantasies surrounding our bedrock American beliefs in things held sacred, including, in this case, our creed of family. It is about why we again and again attend the dark universal tabernacles in which these sermons are offered. The depth of analysis offered here will also bring new insights to those concerned with parenting issues, self understanding, and media consciousness - all increasingly relevant areas of concern in contemporary life. And, for those interested in telling stories that will truly "move" the rest of us, this book will serve as a secret doorway to the inner sanctum of human characters responding to the places and times of their lives. Finally, this book will bring revelation and liberation to reader's lives by showing them how to look through movies into themselves as they have never done before. In the specific examples of archetypal life journeys illuminated through these films, they will experience empathy with the ineffability of their existence. And, in transubstantiating with these movie characters amidst history, culture, and family, they will journey through their own conundrums in arcs that bring them moments of at-one-ment. |
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Pàgina 1
... artistic rendering to cinematic vision. Its metaphor poses the stark question about whether our society is really in the throes of end times or just endlessly readying itself for resurrection. The second stanza of the poem begins ...
... artistic rendering to cinematic vision. Its metaphor poses the stark question about whether our society is really in the throes of end times or just endlessly readying itself for resurrection. The second stanza of the poem begins ...
Pàgina 18
... artists may be ahead of their historical time or in rebellion against their cultural myths does not mean they are liberated from these filters. It just means they bend the light through these filters by prisms of their own. This is what ...
... artists may be ahead of their historical time or in rebellion against their cultural myths does not mean they are liberated from these filters. It just means they bend the light through these filters by prisms of their own. This is what ...
Pàgina 19
... artists do: shape ideas and grudges and emotions into words and sounds and pictures. They see "historical accuracy" as a creature of ideological fashion. Artists take the long view; they figure their visions can outlast political ...
... artists do: shape ideas and grudges and emotions into words and sounds and pictures. They see "historical accuracy" as a creature of ideological fashion. Artists take the long view; they figure their visions can outlast political ...
Pàgina 20
... artist, intuitively tapping into this metaphorical conception, might easily interpret the apple of knowledge offered by the snake in the garden, not as a temptation to sin, but as a gift of true life, pertaining to real living. By so ...
... artist, intuitively tapping into this metaphorical conception, might easily interpret the apple of knowledge offered by the snake in the garden, not as a temptation to sin, but as a gift of true life, pertaining to real living. By so ...
Pàgina 21
... artist does not offer this opportunity, we come out of the tabernacle feeling robbed of the promise of feeling ... artists are geniuses, our illuminations still require the filters that we, the audience, bring to the theater. If our ...
... artist does not offer this opportunity, we come out of the tabernacle feeling robbed of the promise of feeling ... artists are geniuses, our illuminations still require the filters that we, the audience, bring to the theater. If our ...
Continguts
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UNREELING THROUGH THE DECADES | 29 |
The Progress of Blame The Generation Gap | 52 |
Our Town Splendor in The Grass | 55 |
Splendor in The Grass Rebel Without a Cause | 62 |
Rebel Without a Cause Ordinary People | 77 |
A River Runs Through It | 190 |
Love and Role Modeling | 192 |
Sounder | 199 |
Kramer vs Kramer | 211 |
THE LAST DECADE | 213 |
Smoke Signals | 224 |
The Joy Luck Club | 231 |
Grand Canyon | 248 |
Hardship and Ease | 81 |
The Grapes of Wrath The Graduate | 97 |
Transitions | 113 |
The Best Years of Our Lives | 133 |
Nashville | 155 |
WHAT WORKS? | 159 |
Knowing and Not Knowing | 169 |
The Great Santini | 180 |
American Beauty | 265 |
LOOKING BACK ON THE FUTURE | 267 |
Pleasantville | 273 |
21st Century Prognostications | 282 |
The Challenges to Come | 300 |
Artificial Intelligence | 309 |
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Life, Myth, and the American Family Unreeling: The Spiritual Significance of ... Jeffry John Stein Previsualització no disponible - 2005 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 1 - A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Pàgina 11 - Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow...
Pàgina 313 - The lascivious clamor of the flagellomaniac for more of it, constant as the clamor for more insolence, more war, and lower rates, is tolerated and even gratified because, having no moral ends in view, we have sense enough to see that nothing but brute coercion can impose our selfish will on others. Cowardice is universal; patriotism, public opinion, parental duty, discipline, religion, morality, are only fine names for intimidation; and cruelty, gluttony, and credulity keep cowardice in countenance....