The book Searching for Truth and Freedom: Philip K. Dicks Works in Light of Alexis de Tocquevilles Thought proposes an original approach towards the fiction of Philip K. Dick and its film adaptations. Its novelty lays in basing its theoretical assumptions on the premises formulated by Alexis de Tocqueville, who, while influential in the fields of sociology and political theory, cannot yet be regarded as such in the fields of film or literary studies. This book utilizes analysis of Tocquevilles predictions concerning democratic art to examine a comprehensive range of Dicks fiction, as well as...
The book Searching for Truth and Freedom: Philip K. Dicks Works in Light of Alexis de Tocquevilles Thought proposes an original approach towards the f...
This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo Ludens (1938) and Roger Caillois in Les jeux et les hommes (1958). To address the lack of attention paid to the play principle in film comedy studies, this book focuses exclusively on the elements typical of play that can be found in movies. It introduces two new categories describing play: oneiros and pragma, which allow analysis of how play in comedies is influenced by the...
This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories devel...
