SEMINAR PROFILE

A05 -
Love and Money: The Heiress and The Young Philadelphians

As if revising Freud's European observation that the two questions in life were love and work, American films very often seem to portray experience as made up of the desperate pursuit of love and money, often a combined pursuit. The perils of using one to get the other, of confusing one for the other, or of opposing one to the other are nowhere more dramatically presented than in The Heiress, with Olivia DeHaviland and Montgomery Clift and The Young Philadelphians with Paul Newman. The films show how the sentimental and the cynical aims of America's romance with prosperity might be transformed into something more just, and, however painful, more true.

Scholar:

Theo Theoharis

Location:

Harvard Hillel

Dates:

4/4/2011, 4/11/2011

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A05 -	Love and Money: The Heiress and The Young Philadelphians

	As if revising Freud's European observation that the two questions in life were love and work, American films very often seem to portray experience as made up of the desperate pursuit of love and money, often a combined pursuit. The perils of using one to get the other, of confusing one for the other, or of opposing one to the other are nowhere more dramatically presented than in The Heiress, with Olivia DeHaviland and Montgomery Clift and The Young Philadelphians with Paul Newman. The films show how the sentimental and the cynical aims of America's romance with prosperity might be transformed into something more just, and, however painful, more true.

		Scholar:	Theo Theoharis
		Location:	Harvard Hillel
		Dates:	4/4/2011, 4/11/2011