Irony in motion pictures

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Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher

by Pippin, Robert B.

fromPhilosophical filmmakers

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"It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insi…

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Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher

by Pippin, Robert B.

fromPhilosophical filmmakers

0 Type: Book

Introduction: Irony as subversion -- Love and class in All that heaven allows -- Misplaced moralism in Written on the wind -- Living theater in Imitation of life -- Concluding remarks. "It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of m…

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Douglas Sirk. Filmmaker and philosopher

by Pippin, Robert B.

fromPhilosophical filmmakers

0 Type: Book

It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insig…

DS

Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher

by Pippin, Robert B.

fromPhilosophical filmmakers

0 Type: Book

"It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insi…

DS

Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher

by Pippin, Robert B.

fromPhilosophical filmmakers

0 Type: Book

"It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insi…

DS

Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher

by Pippin, Robert B.

fromPhilosophical filmmakers

0 Type: Book

"It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insi…

DS

Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher

by Pippin, Robert B.

fromPhilosophical filmmakers

0 Type: Book

"It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insi…

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Irony and idyll: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield P…

by Sørbø, Marie N.

fromCosterus

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"Jane Austen's worldwide popularity is not least due to the remaking of her novels for the visual media. Of the fifty-odd Austen related productions since 1938, forty-three of them adapt her novels to the various screens of cinema, television, computer and tablet. However, her a…