Title: Movies and the meaning of life : philosophers take on Hollywood /
Authors: Blessing, Kimberly Ann; Tudico, Paul J.
Publisher: Open Court,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Motion pictures Philosophy
Contents: Deceit and doubt: the search for truth in The Truman show and Descarte's Meditations / Kimberly A. Blessing -- Our place in the cosmos: faith and belief in Contact / Heather Keith and Steve Fesmire -- The on-going wow: Waking life and the waltz between detachment and immersion / Kevin Stoehr -- I am Jack's wasted life: Fight Club and personal identity / John Zavodny -- It's my heeeeaaaaad!: sex and death in Being John Malkovich / Walter Ott -- Popping it in: gender identity in Boys don't cry / Rebecca Hanrahan -- We all need mirrors to remind us who we are: inherited meaning and inherited selves in Memento / Michael Bauer -- The indifferent universe: Woody Allen's Crimes and misdemeanors / Mark T. Conrad -- Rats in God's laboratory: Shadowlands and the problem of evil / David Baggett -- Flying without a map: Chasing Amy and the quest for satisfying relationships / Jerry L. Walls -- American beauty: look closer / George Hole -- Life is beautiful: the lure of evil and the rebellion of love / Anthony C. Sciglitano, Jr. -- The Shawshank redemption and the hope for escape / William Young -- The roar and the rampage: a tale of revenge in Kill Bill volumes I and II / Shai Biderman -- Pleasantville, Aristotle, and the meaning of life / Eric Reitan -- Of Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, and living like a hero / Jonathan J. Sanford -- So tired of the future: freedom and determinism in Minority report / Nir Eisikovits and Shai Biderman -- Grace, fate, and accident in Pulp fiction / Michael Silberstein -- What Nietzsche could teach you: eternal recurrence in Groundhog Day / James Spence.