Meeting Movies

Meeting Movies
ISBN-10
0838640990
ISBN-13
9780838640999
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Author
Norman Norwood Holland

Description

"Casablanca, for example, provides millions with a sense of satisfaction. Why? How did this movie about World War II satisfy an adolescent boy afraid of "not being a man," but too young to be in the military? How did such an outrageously sentimental film enable Holland (and many others) to deal with the scary state of the world in 1942 and, indeed, ever since?" "Meeting Movies poses such questions again and again. As a professor of literature and film, Holland feels compelled to interpret. Yet, beneath and beyond his intellectualizing, a variety of half-conscious personal considerations and recurring themes color his feelings and hence his interpretations. And this, he claims, is true for all of us."--Jacket.

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