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Nietzsche in Hollywood
2022
Overview
Nietzsche in Hollywood offers a compelling and startling
history of Hollywood film in which the German philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche and his idea of the Übermensch looms large.
Though Nietzsche's philosophy was attacked as egoistic and a
sociopathic version of Darwinism in films from the 1910s, it
undergoes a series of cinematic and philosophical transformations
in the 1920s and 1930s under the eye and pen of some of the most
significant names in early Hollywood, including Erich von Stroheim,
Josef von Sternberg, Ben Hecht, Howard Hawks, and Ernst Lubitsch.
In addition to establishing historical connections between
Nietzsche's philosophy and these filmmakers, the book provides
philosophical readings of many Hollywood films through the lens of
the Nietzschean ideas of \"perspectivism\" and the critique of
morality. Offering a new history of classic Hollywood films as well
as a new approach to film philosophy, Nietzsche in
Hollywood reveals a reading of the philosopher in American
culture that has largely been ignored.
Publisher
State University of New York Press,SUNY Press
Subject
ISBN
1438490283, 9781438490281, 1438490275, 9781438490274
