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... puzzling movie . This emotionlessness does not confine itself to sexuality , either . Think , for example , of the cryptic face of Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal or Monica Vitti's classical mask in the Antonioni tril- ogy . These ...
... puzzling movie . This emotionlessness does not confine itself to sexuality , either . Think , for example , of the cryptic face of Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal or Monica Vitti's classical mask in the Antonioni tril- ogy . These ...
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... puzzling movie comes along and enables us to do , or think we can do , just what our life style has been wanting to do all along : solve the riddle of emotions and sexuality by purely intel- lectual means . Would that we could ! The ...
... puzzling movie comes along and enables us to do , or think we can do , just what our life style has been wanting to do all along : solve the riddle of emotions and sexuality by purely intel- lectual means . Would that we could ! The ...
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Norman Norwood Holland. The puzzling film pleases us because it is , as in the last analysis all art is , a comfort . What is special about the puzzling movies is that they use their very obscurity to achieve the comforting ...
Norman Norwood Holland. The puzzling film pleases us because it is , as in the last analysis all art is , a comfort . What is special about the puzzling movies is that they use their very obscurity to achieve the comforting ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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