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040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aPN1995
_bG486 D 2005
100 1 _aGilmore, Richard Allen,
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245 1 0 _aDoing philosophy at the movies /
_cRichard A. Gilmore.
260 _aAlbany :
_bState University of New York Press,
_c2005.
300 _a183 p.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
505 0 _a HKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M09
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_xPhilosophy.
_9124707
900 _a= C.1 SDU
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