Title: From Plato's cave to the multiplex : contemporary philosophy and film /
Authors: Renzi, Barbara Gabriella.; Rainey, Stephen.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Philosophy in motion pictures.
Contents: Radical realities : British nineteenth-century positivism and fictive mental constructions in the film Fight Club -- Citing Heidegger in The Thin Red Line -- The cinematic close-up : reflections in light of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas -- Against filmed theatre -- There is no paradox of horror -- It's a Wonderful Life, but why? -- The spectator as moral agent : Kantian ethics and the films of Michael Haneke -- Kantian and Marxist issues in I Girasoli and La Classe operaia va in Paradiso -- The camera as speculum : examining female consciousness in Lost in Translation, using the thought of Luce Irigaray -- Plato's cave and the big screen.