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Doing philosophy at the movies / Richard A. Gilmore.

By: Gilmore, Richard Allen, 1959-.
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005Description: xi, 183 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0791463923 (pbk.); 9780791463925 (pbk.).Subject(s): Motion pictures -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 791.4301
Contents:
1. John Ford's The searchers as an allegory of the philosophical search - 2. A the usual suspects moment in Vertigo: the epistemology of identity - 3. The American sublime in Fargo - 4. Visions of meaning: seeing and non-seeing in Woody Allen's Crimes and misdemeanors - 5. Oedipus techs: time travel as redemption in The terminator and 12 monkeys - 6. Into the toilet: some classical aesthetic themes raised by a scene in Trainspotting - 7. Horror and death at the movies - 8. Conclusion: the dialectics of interpretation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. John Ford's The searchers as an allegory of the philosophical search - 2. A the usual suspects moment in Vertigo: the epistemology of identity - 3. The American sublime in Fargo - 4. Visions of meaning: seeing and non-seeing in Woody Allen's Crimes and misdemeanors - 5. Oedipus techs: time travel as redemption in The terminator and 12 monkeys - 6. Into the toilet: some classical aesthetic themes raised by a scene in Trainspotting - 7. Horror and death at the movies - 8. Conclusion: the dialectics of interpretation.