Memento
By: edited by Andrew Kania.
Contributors: Kania, Andrew.
Series: Philosophers on film
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415774734; 9780415774741; 9780203876596
Subjects: Memento (Motion picture); Philosophy in motion pictures; Memory in motion pictures; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Moral monster or responsible person? Memento's Leonard as a case study in defective agency / Michael McKenna; title: Leonard's system: why doesn't it work? / Joseph Levine; title: The feel of the world: exograms, habits, and the confusion of types of memory / John Sutton; title: The value of memory: reflections on Memento / Raymond Martin; title: Memento and personal identity: do we have it backwards? / Richard Hanley; title: Memento and the phenomenology of comprehending motion picture narration / Noël Carroll; title: Reconfiguring the past: Memento and neo-noir / Deborah Knight and George McKnight; title: What is Memento? ontology and interpretation in mainstream film / Andrew Kania.