Doing philosophy at the movies
By: Richard A. Gilmore.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-178) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Wittgenstein at the movies; title: John Ford's The searchers as an allegory of the philosophical search; title: A the usual suspects moment in Vertigo: the epistemology of identity; title: The American sublime in Fargo; title: Visions of meaning: seeing and non-seeing in Crimes and misdemeanors; title: Oedipus techs: time travel as redemption in The terminator and 12 monkeys; title: Into the toilet: some classical aesthetic themes raised by a scene in Trainspotting; title: Horror and death at the movies; title: Conclusion: the dialectics of interpretation.