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      The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature

      Sam B. Girgus

      This work attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal humanism in American literature under the rubric of literary modernism.

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      The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea

      Sam B. Girgus

      Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to…

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      Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image: Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film

      Sam B. Girgus

      In ‘Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image’, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey’s theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the…

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      Clint Eastwood’s America

      Sam B. Girgus

      The steady rise of Clint Eastwood s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption…

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      Clint Eastwood’s America

      Sam B. Girgus

      The steady rise of Clint Eastwood s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption…

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      Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology

      Sam B Girgus

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      Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

      Sam B. Girgus

      In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam Girgus applies Levinas’s ethics to a variety of international films. His effort points to a transnational pattern he terms the…

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      Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

      Sam B. Girgus

      In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam Girgus applies Levinas’s ethics to a variety of international films. His effort points to a transnational pattern he terms the…

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      Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America’s Soul: Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg

      Sam B. Girgus

      From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors-William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg–advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the…

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      Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America’s Soul: Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg

      Sam B. Girgus

      From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors-William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg–advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the…

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      Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image: Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film

      Sam B Girgus (Vanderbilt University)

      In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey’s theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the…

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      The Films of Woody Allen

      Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

      This book was the first full-length work to examine the director as a serious filmmaker and artist. This revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that examine Allen’s work…

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      America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America

      Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

      America on Film examines how the notion of ‘American’ has changed from American cinema up to the 1950s. In works such as Malcolm X , Raging Bull, When We Were…

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      Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Kapra, and Kazan

      Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

      In this lively and original book, Sam Girgus offers a fresh look at classic films by Ford, Capra, Hawks, Zinnemann, Kazan, and Stevens, and shows how they are part of…

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      The Films of Woody Allen

      Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

      This book was the first full-length work to examine the director as a serious filmmaker and artist. This revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that examine Allen’s work…

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      America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America

      Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

      America on Film examines how the notion of ‘American’ has changed from American cinema up to the 1950s. In works such as Malcolm X , Raging Bull, When We Were…

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      A Companion to Woody Allen

      Peter J. Bailey,Sam B. Girgus

      Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director’s films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical perspectives…

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      Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Kapra, and Kazan

      Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

      In this lively and original book, Sam Girgus offers a fresh look at classic films by Ford, Capra, Hawks, Zinnemann, Kazan, and Stevens, and shows how they are part of…

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