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Gilmore, Richard Allen,
Doing philosophy at the movies / Richard A. Gilmore. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005. - 183 p.
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. HKBU library
YT2025 M09
0791463915 0791463923 9780791463918 9780791463925
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
PN1995 / G486 D 2005
Doing philosophy at the movies / Richard A. Gilmore. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005. - 183 p.
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. HKBU library
YT2025 M09
0791463915 0791463923 9780791463918 9780791463925
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
PN1995 / G486 D 2005