Thinking through film
Subtitle: doing philosophy, watching movies
By: Damian Cox, Michael P. Levine
Contributors: Levine, Michael P.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781405193436; 9781405193429
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophy and film. Why film and philosophy?; title: Philosophy and film spectatorship; title: Epistemology and metaphysics. Knowing what's what in Total recall; title: Ontology and The matrix; title: It's all in the mind: AI artificial intelligence and robot love; title: La jetee and the promise of time travel; title: The human condition. Fate and choice: the philosophy of Minority report; title: Personal identity: the case of Memento; title: The spectacle of horror: Funny games; title: Looking for meaning in all the wrong places (Ikiru, "to live"); title: Ethics and values. Crimes and misdemeanors and the fragility of moral motivation; title: Lives of others: moral luck and regret; title: The dark knight: Batman on deontology and consequentialism; title: Dangerous childhood: La promesse and the possibility of virtue.