Visions of paradise : images of Eden in the cinema /

Depictions of sex, violence, and crime abound in many of today's movies, sometimes making it seem that the idyllic life has vanished-even from our imaginations. But as shown in this unique book, paradise has not always been lost. For many years, depictions of heaven, earthly paradises, and utop...

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Hlavní autor: Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950- (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ©2006.
Edice:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjb7t
Obsah:
  • The great escape
  • Eternal summer
  • Paradise now
  • The uses of heaven
  • The promise of the future.