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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press
©2006.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjb7t |
Table of Contents:
- The great escape
- Eternal summer
- Paradise now
- The uses of heaven
- The promise of the future.