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Doing philosophy at the movies /
"Doing Philosophy at the Movies finds the roots of profound philosophical ideas in the relatively ordinary context of popular, mostly Hollywood, movies. Richard A. Gilmore suggests that narratives of popular films like Hitchcock's Vertigo, John Ford's The Searchers, Woody Allen's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.