Maria Garcia

Cinematic Quests for Identity

The Hero's Encounter with the Beast

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the narrative and cinematic conventions of movies that are about the quest for identity and individuation. Chapters are devoted to individual films, such as La Belle et la Bête, The Silence of the Lambs, The Searchers, The Deer Hunter, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as considerations of films directed by Catherine Breillat and Robert Bresson.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781442246973
• ISBN-10: 1442246979
• Artikelnr.: 41855595

Autorenporträt

Maria Garcia is a film critic, feature writer, and an adjunct lecturer in the English Department at CUNY Baruch College. Her reviews and filmmaker interviews appear regularly in Cineaste and Film Journal International.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Framing the Beast of Individuation 2. A
Woman's Beast: The Silence of the Lambs 3. The Male Quest: When the Hero
Doesn't Get "The Girl" 4. Love Affairs with the Beast: Two Women of
Screwball Comedy 5. The Beast of the Diamond 6. The Child's Quest: A First
Glimpse of Mortality 7. Catherine Breillat and the Fairy Tale Quest as
"Passage" 8. Robert Bresson and the Feminine Face of God Filmography
Bibliography Index About the Author