Visions of Virtue in Popular Film

, by Kupfer,Joseph

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ISBN: 9780813367217 | 0813367212
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Copyright: 9/17/1999

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By interpreting popular movies as moral parables, this book deepens our aesthetic appreciation of film as it illustrates how narratives can extend our understanding of virtue and vice.

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Visions of Virtue in Popular Film	p. 1
Film Criticism and Virtue Theory	p. 13
Virtue and Happiness in Groundhog Day	p. 35
Notes	p. 58
The Work of Love in the African Queen	p. 61
The Virtues of Parenthood	p. 91
Language, Community, and Evil in Rob Roy	p. 123
Fresh Phronesis	p. 155
Character in Crisis: Reluctant Heroes in Jews and Aliens	p. 187
Notes	p. 220
Concluding Angles	p. 223
Index	p. 231
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Visions of Virtue in Popular Film

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