Love in Motion: Erotic Relationships in Film
Reidar Due
Abstract
This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. This book presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has been particularly well suited for depicting love in this way, in virtue of its special narrative language. This is a language of expression that has developed in the course of film history. ... More
Keywords: film, love, Plato, erotic love, soul, erotic relationship, narrative language, silent directors, Joseph von Sternberg, Sophia Coppola
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231167338 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231167338.001.0001 |
