Cox / Levine Thinking Through Film

Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4381-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

An introduction to philosophy through film, Thinking ThroughFilm: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies combines theexploration of fundamental philosophical issues with the experienceof viewing films, and provides an engaging reading experience forundergraduate students, philosophy enthusiasts and film buffsalike.
* An in-depth yet accessible introduction to the philosophicalissues raised by films, film spectatorship andfilm-making
* Provides 12 self-contained, close discussions of individualfilms from across genres
* Films discussed include Total Recall, Minority Report, LaPromesse, Funny Games, Ikuru, The Dark Knight, Memento, AI andmore
* Explores concepts that span epistemology, metaphysics, fate,choice, robot love, time travel, personal identity, spectacle,ethics, luck, regret, consequentialism, deontology and thephilosophy of film itself
* A uniquely flexible resource for courses in philosophy and filmthat encourages student reflection, as well as being an engagingread for the film enthusiast

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox, Damian

Levine, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Acknowledgments x
Part I Philosophy and Film 1
1 Why Film and Philosophy? 3
2 Philosophy and Film Spectatorship 23
Part II Epistemology and Metaphysics 47
3 Knowing What's What in Total Recall 49
4 Ontology and The Matrix 65
5 It's All in the Mind: AI Artifi cial Intelligence andRobot Love 79
6 La Jetée and the Promise of Time Travel 98
Part III The Human Condition 113
7 Fate and Choice: The Philosophy of Minority Report115
8 Personal Identity: The Case of Memento 132
9 The Spectacle of Horror: Funny Games 147
10 Looking for Meaning in All the Wrong Places: Ikiru("To Live") 170
Part IV Ethics and Values 189
11 Crimes and Misdemeanors and the Fragility of MoralMotivation 191
12 The Lives of Others: Moral Luck and Regret 209
13 The Dark Knight: Batman on Deontology andConsequentialism 228
14 Dangerous Childhood: La Promesse and the Possibilityof Virtue 245
Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

Damian Cox is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at BondUniversity. He is co-author of Integrity and the FragileSelf with Michael Levine and Marguerite La Caze in 2003. Coxhas written widely on philosophical topics including ethics, valuetheory, metaphysics and epistemology.
Michael Levine is professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Western Australia, and has co-authored PoliticsMost Unusual: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the 'Waron Terror' with Damian Cox and Saul Newman (2009). He iscurrently working on the topic of the role of regret andself-assessment in our moral lives.