Doing philosophy at the movies /
Gilmore, Richard A.
Doing philosophy at the movies / Richard A. Gilmore. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005. - xi, 183 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-178) and index.
Introduction: Wittgenstein at the movies -- John Ford's The searchers as an allegory of the philosophical search -- A the usual suspects moment in Vertigo: the epistemology of identity -- The American sublime in Fargo -- Visions of meaning: seeing and non-seeing in Crimes and misdemeanors -- Oedipus techs: time travel as redemption in The terminator and 12 monkeys -- Into the toilet: some classical aesthetic themes raised by a scene in Trainspotting -- Horror and death at the movies -- Conclusion: the dialectics of interpretation.
0791463915 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780791463918 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0791463923 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780791463925 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004008050
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Cinâema--Philosophie.
PN1995 / G495 2005
791.43/01
Doing philosophy at the movies / Richard A. Gilmore. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005. - xi, 183 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-178) and index.
Introduction: Wittgenstein at the movies -- John Ford's The searchers as an allegory of the philosophical search -- A the usual suspects moment in Vertigo: the epistemology of identity -- The American sublime in Fargo -- Visions of meaning: seeing and non-seeing in Crimes and misdemeanors -- Oedipus techs: time travel as redemption in The terminator and 12 monkeys -- Into the toilet: some classical aesthetic themes raised by a scene in Trainspotting -- Horror and death at the movies -- Conclusion: the dialectics of interpretation.
0791463915 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780791463918 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0791463923 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780791463925 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004008050
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Cinâema--Philosophie.
PN1995 / G495 2005
791.43/01