This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds films social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawas Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostamis Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens The Man Who Wasnt There .
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Poorly written dissertation on plays in French by someone who hasnt read the French literature on themBy Edmund- Grammatical errors abound and the writing is clumsy in this hastily published project. (Sample of his writing: "The world. especially in the 1930s. was gearing up for unilinear progress. The claims of an Aryan nation proved this fact.")- Consists mostly of the "this is how everyone reacted to this production" school of analysis.- The "reassessment" of Camus occupies a page and a half and consists entirely of quoting from the last page of a single essay. Although the author seems to have made it to page 4 of The Rebel. not a single other Camus text is considered.Three very serious errors stand out among many:- There are approximately two texts that have been read in their original French. an article by Ionesco and Sisyphus by Camus. This is a book that promises to think about plays written in French but does not include French criticism or readings of the plays in French- Bennett more than once claims to make an original contribution to scholarship only to sneak into an endnote that. actually. loads of people have come to his conclusions before. As he admits several times. thinking about the theatre of the absurd as a theatre of parables isnt really his idea and people have been doing it for decades.- While Bennett has read and used a great deal of other peoples insights on these plays. he has not read a great deal of the playwrights works. The bibliography of this reassessment of the theatre of the absurd includes two entries for Beckett (both in English) and two for Genet and two for Pinter. Ionesco gets has four entries (three in English).Apparently academic journals have lined up to praise this book.
