Sam B. Girgus
Sam B. Girgus (born c. 1942) is an American film and literature scholar, professor of English at Vanderbilt University.[1] He is well known for his analysis of the works of Woody Allen in his books such as The Films of Woody Allen (2002) and A Companion to Woody Allen (2013) with Peter J. Bailey.[2][3] He believes ultimately that Allen's films undermine the world in which we live.[4] Girgus has also authored a book on Clint Eastwood and books such as The American self: myth, ideology, and popular culture (1981), Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era (1998), America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America (2002),[5] Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine (2010) and many others. Several of his works have addressed the relationship between film and literature and politics and democratic individualism.[6][7]
References
- "Sam Girgus". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
- Girgus, Sam B. (18 November 2002). The Films of Woody Allen. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00929-4.
- Bailey, Peter J.; Girgus, Sam B. (12 February 2013). A Companion to Woody Allen. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-51486-3.
- Nichols, Mary P. (1 January 2000). Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8476-8990-3.
- Girgus, Sam B. (17 October 2002). America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00931-7.
- Girgus, Sam B. (1 November 2011). The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73969-7.
- Girgus, Sam B. (1990). Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology. Macmillan Publishers Limited. ISBN 978-0-333-49907-8.
Girgus, Sam B. (September 2018). Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image: Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film . Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-3623-6.