Ebook: Love in Motion : Erotic Relationships in Film
Author: Due Reidar
- Tags: Love in motion pictures., Motion pictures -- History., Love -- Philosophy., Moore Alan 1953- -- Criticism and interpretation., ART -- Techniques -- Drawing., PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production., Motion pictures.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has Read more...
Abstract: This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has been particularly well suited for depicting love in this way, in virtue of its special narrative language. This is a language of expression that has developed in the course of film his