Doing Philosophy at the Movies
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Doing Philosophy at the Movies

  1. 195 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Doing Philosophy at the Movies

About this book

Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.

Doing Philosophy at the Movies finds the roots of profound philosophical ideas in the relatively ordinary context of popular, mostly Hollywood, movies. Richard A. Gilmore suggests that narratives of popular films like Hitchcock's Vertigo, John Ford's The Searchers, Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Coen Brothers' Fargo, and Danny Boyle's Trainspotting mirror certain epiphanies in the works of great philosophers. Via Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Zðizûek, Gilmore addresses such themes as the nature of philosophy, the possibility of redemption through love, catharsis, the sublime, and the human problem of death. Gilmore argues that seeing these movies through the lens of certain philosophical ideas can show how deeply relevant both philosophy and the movies can be.

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Information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780791463925, 9780791463918
eBook ISBN
9780791483534
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Doing Philosophy at the Movies
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: What It Means to Do Philosophy
  6. 1. John Ford’s The Searchers as an Allegory of the Philosophical Search
  7. 2. A The Usual Suspects Moment in Vertigo: The Epistemology of Identity
  8. 3. The American Sublime in Fargo
  9. 4. Visions of Meaning: Seeing and Non-Seeing in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors
  10. 5. Oedipus Techs: Time Travel as Redemption in The Terminator and 12 Monkeys
  11. 6. Into the Toilet: Some Classical Aesthetic Themes Raised by a Scene in Trainspotting
  12. 7. Horror and Death at the Movies
  13. Conclusion: The Dialectics of Interpretation
  14. Notes
  15. Index