Cinematic Quests for Identity: The Hero's Encounter with the Beast

by Maria Garcia

This book examines the narrative and cinematic conventions of movies that are about the quest for identity and individuation. Chapters are devoted to individual films, such as La Belle et la B te, The Silence of the Lambs, The Searchers, The Deer Hunter, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as considerations of films directed by Catherine Breillat and Robert Bresson.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442246979
• ISBN13: 9781442246973
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 8.9"