Love in Motion: Erotic Relationships in Film

by Reidar Due

Book Overview

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.

Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has been particularly well suited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231167334
• ISBN13: 9780231167338
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"