The Capra Touch

Crossley, Laura

doi:10.1386/fiin.15.1.11_1

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“…5 Laura Crossley argues against the notion of Pleasantville being a token of a "nostalgia films" invoking a past, and rather it does not "promulgate a yearning for the past, but evoke[s] the characters and tropes of a romanticized past in order to comment upon both that past and the present" (Crossley 2017). In my reading, this much is clear.…”

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confidence: 97%

Where Epistemology and Metaphysics Touch in Lois Lowry's The Giver and Gary Ross's Pleasantville

Vannatta

2023

Pop. cult. rev.

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This paper argues that Lowry's novel, The Giver, falls short of a consistent philosophical premise regarding the establishment of Sameness in the novel because it vacillates between a metaphysical and an epistemological understanding of Sameness. On the other hand, Ross's film, Pleasantville, navigates the same high concept with more philosophical consistency. Further, the film illustrates the white establishment's fears of female sexuality and the racialized Other with more concreteness than the abstract liberation experienced by community members in The Giver.

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Section: Recent Interpretations Of Pleasantvillementioning

confidence: 97%