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Author : RUKGABER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781438490274
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche in Hollywood written by RUKGABER and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Nietzsche's idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.
Author : Matthew Rukgaber
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438490291
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche in Hollywood written by Matthew Rukgaber and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche in Hollywood offers a compelling and startling history of Hollywood film in which the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his idea of the Übermensch looms large. Though Nietzsche's philosophy was attacked as egoistic and a sociopathic version of Darwinism in films from the 1910s, it undergoes a series of cinematic and philosophical transformations in the 1920s and 1930s under the eye and pen of some of the most significant names in early Hollywood, including Erich von Stroheim, Josef von Sternberg, Ben Hecht, Howard Hawks, and Ernst Lubitsch. In addition to establishing historical connections between Nietzsche's philosophy and these filmmakers, the book provides philosophical readings of many Hollywood films through the lens of the Nietzschean ideas of "perspectivism" and the critique of morality. Offering a new history of classic Hollywood films as well as a new approach to film philosophy, Nietzsche in Hollywood reveals a reading of the philosopher in American culture that has largely been ignored.
Author : Kimberly A. Blessing
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812698746
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Movies and the Meaning of Life written by Kimberly A. Blessing and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions," said the existentiallist thinker Albert Camus. And no less a philosopher than Woody Allen has wondered:"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" "Movies and the Meaning of Life" looks at popular and cult movies, examining their assumptions and insights on meaning-of-life questions: What is reality and how can I know it? (The Truman Show, Contact, Waking Life); How do I find myself and my true identity? (Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, Memento); How do I find meaning from my interactions with others? (Pulp Fiction, Shadowlands, Chasing Amy); What is the chief purpose in life? (American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, The Shawshank Redemption); and How ought I live my life? (Pleasantville, Spiderman, Minority Report, Groundhog Day).
Author : Brian James Godawa
Publisher : Screenplays as Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781942858522
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche: A Dangerous Life: An Historical Biography Movie Script About History's Most Infamous Atheist written by Brian James Godawa and published by Screenplays as Literature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche, infamous for his statement, "God is dead," would change the world with his ideas, yet would struggle all his life with sickness, mental illness, the fruitless search for love, and the suffocating devotion of his petty sister, who would ultimately control his destiny. A bond between brother & sister only God could separate.
Author : Manuel Knoll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110359456
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche as Political Philosopher written by Manuel Knoll and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection establishes Nietzsche's importance as a political philosopher. It includes a substantial introduction and eighteen chapters by some of the most renowned Nietzsche scholars. The book examines Nietzsche's connections with political thought since Plato, major influences on him, his methodology, and his influence on subsequent thought. The book includes extensive coverage of the debate between radical aristocratic readings of Nietzsche, and more liberal or democratic readings. Close readings of Nietzsche's texts are combined with a contextualising approach to build up a complete picture of his place in political philosophy. Topics include the relevance of Bonapartism and classical liberalism, Nietzsche on Christianity, the cultural history of Germany, the Übermensch, ethics and politics in Nietzsche, and the controversial question of his political preferences and affinities. Nietzsche's political thought is compared with that of Humboldt, Weber and Foucault. The book is essential reading for anyone concerned with Nietzsche's thought, political philosophy, and the history of political ideas.
Author : Kevin L. Stoehr
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611335
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Nihilism in Film and Television written by Kevin L. Stoehr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the idea of nihilism, emphasized by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, through its appearance in modern popular culture. The author defines and reflects upon nihilism, then explores its manifestation in films and television shows. Among the subjects examined are the award-winning television series The Sopranos and the film noir genre that preceded and influenced it. Films probed include Orson Welles's masterpiece Citizen Kane, the films of Stanley Kubrick, Neil Jordan's controversial The Crying Game and Richard Linklater's unconventional Waking Life. Finally, the author considers nihilism in terms of the decay of traditional values in the genre of westerns, mostly through works of filmmaker John Ford. In the concluding chapter the author broadens the lessons gleaned from these studies, maintaining that the situated and embodied nature of human life must be understood and appreciated before people can overcome the life-negating effects of nihilism.
Author : Fredrick Appel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801434242
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche Contra Democracy written by Fredrick Appel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apolitical, amoral, an aesthete whose writings point toward some form of liberation: this is the figure who emerges from most recent scholarship on Friedrich Nietzsche. The Nietzsche whom Fredrick Appel portrays is of an altogether different character, one whose philosophical position is inseparable from a deep commitment to a hierarchical politics. Nietzsche contra Democracy gives us a thinker who, disdainful of the "petty politics" of his time, attempts to lay the normative foundations for a modern political alternative to democracy. Appel shows how Nietzsche's writings evoke the prospect of a culturally revitalized Europe in which the herdlike majority and its values are put in their proper place: under the control of a new, self-aware, and thoroughly modern aristocratic caste whose sole concern is its own flourishing.In chapters devoted to Nietzsche's little discussed views on solitude, friendship, sociability, families, and breeding, this book brings Nietzsche into conversation with Aristotelian and Stoic strains of thought. More than a healthy jolt to Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche contra Democracy also challenges political theory to articulate and defend the moral consensus undergirding democracy.
Author : Ari Hiltunen
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Aristotle in Hollywood written by Ari Hiltunen and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the centuries Aristotle's Poetics remained something of a mystery. What was the great philosopher trying to say about the nature of drama and storytelling? What did he mean by pity, fear and catharsis? In this book, Ari Hiltunen explains the mystery of the 'proper pleasure', which, according to Aristotle, is the goal of drama and can be brought about by using certain storytelling strategies. Hiltunen develops Aristotle's thesis to demonstrate how the world's best-loved fairy tales, Shakespeare's success, and empirical studies on the enjoyment of drama and brain physiology, all give support to the idea of a universal 'proper pleasure' through storytelling. Examining the key concepts and logic of Poetics, Hiltunen offers a unique insight to anyone who wants to know the secret of successful storytelling, both in the past and in today's multi-billion dollar entertainment industry. Ari Hiltunen concludes that Aristotle's ideas and insights are as valid today as they were over 2000 years ago. This book will be of interest to all those working and studying in the fields of communication, media and writing.
Author : Robert Pippin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107378249
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Introductions to Nietzsche written by Robert Pippin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to power and the eternal recurrence, his perspectivism, his theories of tragedy and nihilism and his thoughts on ancient and modern culture. Written by internationally recognized scholars, they provide the interested reader with an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the thought of this fascinating figure.
Author : Sue Prideaux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 152476082X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book I Am Dynamite! written by Sue Prideaux and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche"--
Author : Brian James Godawa
Publisher : Screenplays as Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781942858522
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche: A Dangerous Life: An Historical Biography Movie Script About History's Most Infamous Atheist written by Brian James Godawa and published by Screenplays as Literature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche, infamous for his statement, "God is dead," would change the world with his ideas, yet would struggle all his life with sickness, mental illness, the fruitless search for love, and the suffocating devotion of his petty sister, who would ultimately control his destiny. A bond between brother & sister only God could separate.
Author : Daniel Shaw
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474455727
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films written by Daniel Shaw and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's most important contemporary thinkers, Stanley Cavell's remarkable film philosophy proposed that the greatest Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we really are - a struggle that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism. Focusing on his account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, Dan Shaw draws on Cavell's theories to interpret a range of classic and contemporary dramas, including Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Boys Don't Cry (1999) and The Hurt Locker (2008). Pairing of these analyses with discussions of Cavell's precursors, including Emerson, Nietzsche and Mill, the book explores a distinctively American philosophical foundation for the study of Hollywood film.
Author : James Morrison
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791439371
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Passport to Hollywood written by James Morrison and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.
Author : Robert B. Pippin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300145780
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Westerns and American Myth written by Robert B. Pippin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state’s claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.Pippin’s account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy.
Author : Ernest Mathijs
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042016825
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book From Hobbits to Hollywood written by Ernest Mathijs and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Jackson's film version of The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) is the grandest achievement of 21st century cinema so far. But it is also linked to topical and social concerns including war, terrorism, and cultural imperialism. Its style, symbols, narrative, and structure seem always already linked to politics, cultural definition, problems of cinematic style, and the elemenal mythologies that most profoundly capture our imaginations. From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings treats Jackson's trilogy as having two conditions of existence: an aesthetic and a political. Like other cultural artefacts, it leads a double life as objet d'art and public statement about the world, so that nothing in it is ever just cinematically beautiful or tasteful, and nothing is ever just a message or an opinion. Written by leading scholars in the study of cinema and culture From Hobbits to Hollywood gives Jackson's trilogy the fullest scholarly interrogation to date. Ranging from interpretations of The Lord of the Rings' ideological and philosophical implications, through discussions of its changing fandoms and its incorporation into the Hollywood industry of stars, technology, genre, and merchandising, to considerations of CGI effects, acting, architecture and style, the essays contained here open a new vista of criticism and light, for ardent fans of J.R.R. Tolkien, followers of Jackson, and all those who yearn for a deeper appreciation of cinema and its relation to culture.
Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674022324
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow written by Stanley Cavell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by artists like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays exploring the meaning of grace and gesture in film and on stage, in language and in life. Critical to the renaissance in American thought Cavell hopes to provoke is the recognition of the centrality of the “ordinary” to American life.
Author : Mark T. Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813123771
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Film Noir written by Mark T. Conard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explores the philosophical underpinnings of classic films.
