A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment /
"Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywo...
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New York :
Routledge,
2019
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| Series: | Routledge research in aesthetics ;
6 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: film as freedom: the meaning of film as philosophy
- Implicating the narrator, implicating the audience: Waltz with Bashir and Apocalypto
- How to represent a past we would rather forget: Hiroshima mon amour and Last year at Marienbad
- Learning from conceptually impossible versions of our world: Never let me go and The road
- When melancholia is exactly what is called for: Melancholia and Solaris
- Gravity's arc; or gravity: A space odyssey
- The fantasy of absolute safety through absolute power: The lord of the rings trilogy and Avatar
- Conclusion: what have we learnt?