LEADER 03282nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910974783603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780791483534 010 $a0791483533 010 $a9781423743958 010 $a1423743954 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791483534 035 $a(CKB)1000000000458788 035 $a(OCoLC)461441889 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579273 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140725 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157275 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140725 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10054644 035 $a(PQKB)10394040 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407850 035 $a(OCoLC)62750506 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6265 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407850 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579273 035 $a(OCoLC)923410190 035 $a(DE-B1597)684437 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791483534 035 $a(Perlego)2674252 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000458788 100 $a20040406d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDoing philosophy at the movies /$fRichard A. Gilmore 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (196 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791463918 311 08$a0791463915 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-178) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aDoing 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. 606 $aMotion pictures$xPhilosophy 606 $aPerforming arts$xPhilosophy 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPerforming arts$xPhilosophy. 676 $a791.43/01 700 $aGilmore$b Richard A$01806902 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974783603321 996 $aDoing philosophy at the movies$94356326 997 $aUNINA