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Deb, Paul 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0347-1804
(2021)
"I saw a different life. I can't stop seeing it": Perfectionist visions in Revolutionary Road.
Film-Philosophy, 25 (3).
pp. 251-271.
ISSN 1466-4615
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Abstract
In this article, I claim that Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road (2008) is a recent version of the film genre that Stanley Cavell calls the “melodrama of the unknown woman”. Accordingly, my discussion focuses on two key elements of that identification: the film’s overriding dramatic and thematic emphasis on conversation, and the central characters’ relation to the wider social and political concerns of America.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | stanley cavell,sam mendes,leonardo dicaprio,kate winslet,melodrama,unknown woman,moral perfectionism,hollywood,communication,philosophy,visual arts and performing arts ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3315 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2021 00:08 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 02:36 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80933 |
| DOI: | 10.3366/film.2021.0175 |
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