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Minerva's Night Out Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Minerva's Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Philosophy and the Popular Arts
- Notes
- Section I The Philosophy of Mass Art
- 1 The Ontology of Mass Art
- I. The definition of mass art
- II. The ontology of mass art
- III. Objection #1: All art is multiple
- IV. Objection #2: Mass art is irrelevant
- Notes
- 2 Modernity and the Plasticity of Perception
- Notes
- 3 The Ties that Bind: Characters, the Emotions, and Popular Fictions
- The issues
- Identification
- Simulation
- Sympathy
- Mirror reflexes
- Summary
- Notes
- 4 Character, Social Information, and the Challenge of Psychology
- I. Introduction
- II. Aristotle, poetry, and character
- III. Social psychological skepticism about character
- IV. A defense of a modified version of the common view
- V. The Big Country
- VI. Summary
- Notes
- Section II The Philosophy of Motion Pictures
- 5 Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Sympathy
- I. Introduction
- II. Emotions and movies
- III. The moral emotions and the audience's response to movie characters, actions, events, and scenes
- IV. Sympathy/antipathy, morality, and the movies
- V. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- 6 The Problem with Movie Stars
- Introduction
- The problem
- Film, photography, and allusion
- The movie star as allusion
- Summary
- Notes
- 7 Cinematic Narrative
- 8 Cinematic Narration
- 9 Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film
- Notes
- References
- Section III Philosophy and Popular Film
- 10 Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset Boulevard
- Introduction
- Sunset Boulevard
- How can Sunset Boulevard be philosophical?
- Summary
- Notes
- References
- 11 Vertigo and the Pathologies of Romantic Love
- Aristotle, philosophy, and drama
- Love and fantasy
- Falling in love
- Knots
- Notes
- 12 What Mr Creosote Knows about Laughter
- To laugh, or to scream?
- Who's afraid of Mr Creosote?
- Just desserts
- Notes
- 13 Memento and the Phenomenology of Comprehending Motion Picture Narration
- Introduction
- On the possibility of movie-made philosophy
- Memento and the Art Cinema
- Memento and narrative comprehension
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Section IV Philosophy and Popular TV
- 14 Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution to Narratology
- Introduction
- Tales of dread: some examples from The Twilight Zone
- The nature and function of Tales of Dread
- Horror fictions and tales of dread: a brief note
- Notes
- 15 Sympathy for Soprano
- Sympathy for the devil
- It was fascination
- Wish fulfillment
- Identification
- Paradox solved
- A remaining problem
- Notes
- 16 Consuming Passion: Sex and the City
- I. Introduction
- II. Consumerism
- III. Ethics and the evils of consumerism
- IV. Consumerism and the mass media
- V. Sex and the City