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Doing philosophy at the movies / Richard A. Gilmore.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005.Description: 183 pISBN:
  • 0791463915
  • 0791463923
  • 9780791463918
  • 9780791463925
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995 G486 D 2005
Contents:
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.
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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.

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