Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
Series |
Thinking media |
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Thinking media
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Contents |
1 Introduction: Skepticism Films. A Certain Tendency in Contemporary Cinema -- Part 1 Thinking Through Cinema; 2 Films as Configurations of Philosophical Thought -- 3 Remediating Philosophy, or: The Media of Philosophical Thought -- Part 2 Skepticism in Film Philosophy; 4 Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism: Knowledge, Acknowledgment, and Trust -- 5 A Moving Image of Skepticism? Philosophy's Acknowledgment of Film -- 6 A Cinema for Believers. Trust, Belief, and the Expulsion from the Paradise of Childhood -- Part 3 Skepticism Films; 7 Varieties of Skepticism Films -- 8 Tools for Philosophical Film Analysis -- 9 (Not) Knowing My World: External World Skepticism Films. A Comparative Analysis of The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and The Truman Show -- 10 Not Knowing My Self: Self-Knowledge Skepticism Films -- 11 Coda. From Doubt to Acknowledgment, or: The Philosophical Significance of Skepticism Films Revisited |
Summary |
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 10, 2015) |
Subject |
Skepticism -- In motion pictures
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Knowledge, Theory of -- In motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Skepticism in motion pictures
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781501310997 |
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1501310992 |
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