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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451574803321

Autore

Gilmore Richard A

Titolo

Doing philosophy at the movies [[electronic resource] /] / Richard A. Gilmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005

ISBN

0-7914-8353-3

1-4237-4395-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/01

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Performing arts - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Wittgenstein at the movies -- John Ford's The searchers as an allegory of the philosophical search -- A the usual suspects moment in Vertigo: the epistemology of identity -- The American sublime in Fargo -- Visions of meaning: seeing and non-seeing in Crimes and misdemeanors -- Oedipus techs: time travel as redemption in The terminator and 12 monkeys -- Into the toilet: some classical aesthetic themes raised by a scene in Trainspotting -- Horror and death at the movies -- Conclusion: the dialectics of interpretation.