Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed
Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed
副标题: Anguish, God and Existentialism
ISBN: 9780786413195
出版社: McFarland & Company
出版年: 2002-04-12
页数: 224
定价: USD 29.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
This new textbook is an abridgment of the author's earlier Woody Allen's Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on His Serious Films (McFarland, 1997; “invaluable”—Choice.)
Five main topics are explored: the desire of many of his characters to ground their lives in traditional ethical values despite their realization that such values may no longer be certain; the opposition between pessimism and optimism throughout his films; gender issues relating to romantic love, sexual desire, and the ongoing changes in our cultural expectations of both men and women; the idea that contemporary American society is rapidly descending into barbarism precisely because of societal failure to maintain a sense of individual moral responsibility; and a critique of psychoanalysis as a method for understanding human behavior.