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Details the history of dialectical thought from Plato to Jung before turning its focus to the development of character in a century of filmmaking. From Chaplin's Tramp to Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle, it examines more than two dozen cinematic characters governed by dialectic-torn between life and death, opposing desires, moralities and wills, their sense of self threatened by others.

Cinema and Its Discontents The Dialectical Nature

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      Publisher: McFarland & Company
      Publication Date: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786475384, 978-0786475384
      ISBN10: 0786475382

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      Book Synopsis
      Details the history of dialectical thought from Plato to Jung before turning its focus to the development of character in a century of filmmaking. From Chaplin's Tramp to Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle, it examines more than two dozen cinematic characters governed by dialectic-torn between life and death, opposing desires, moralities and wills, their sense of self threatened by others.

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