03444 a2200289 4500 114539 114539 BJBSDDR 20230411090657.0 ta 210820b2005 ilu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780812695755 0812695755 spa BJBSDDR eng PN 1995 M935 2005 791.43/684 Movies and the meaning of life : philosophers take on Hollywood / [Edited by] Kimberly A. Blessing and Paul J. Tudico Chicago : Open Court, 2005 xvi, 302 p. ; 23 cm Acknowledgments: You Mean So Much to Us Introduction: So . . . Why "The Meaning of Life"? Take One: Are You For Real? THE TRUMAN SHOW 1. Deceit and Doubt: The Search For Truth in The Truman Show and Descartes's Meditations KIMBERLY A. BLESSING CONTACT 2. Our Place in the Cosmos: Faith and Belief in Contact HEATHER KEITH AND STEVE FESMIRE WAKING LIFE 3. The On-Going Wow: Waking Life and The Waltz Between Detachment and Immersion KEVIN STOEHR Take Two: Who Am I? FIGHT CLUB 4. I Am Jack's Wasted Life: Fight Club and Personal Identity JOHN ZAVODNY BEING JOHN MALKOVICH 5. It's my Heeeeaaaad!: Sex and Death in Being John Malkovich WALTER OTT BOYS DON'T CRY 6. Popping It In: Gender Identity in Boys Don't Cry REBECCA HANRAHAN MEMENTO 7. We All Need Mirrors to Remind Us Who We Are: Inherited Meaning and Inherited Selves in Memento MICHAEL BAUR Take Three: Am I Alone? CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS 8. The Indifferent Universe: Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors MARK T. CONARD SHADOWLANDS 9. Rats In God's Laboratory: Shadowlands and The Problem of Evil DAVID BAGGETT CHASING AMY 10. Flying Without a Map: Chasing Amy and The Quest For Satisfying Relationships JERRY WALLS Take Four: What Do I Want Out of Life? AMERICAN BEAUTY 11. American Beauty: Look Closer GEORGE HOLE LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 12. Life is Beautiful: The Lure of Evil and the Rebellion of Love ANTHONY SCIGLITANO THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION 13. The Shawshank Redemption and The Hope For Escape WILLIAM YOUNG KILL BILL, VOLUMES 1 AND 2 14. The Roar and the Rampage: A Tale of Revenge in Kill Bill Volumes I and II SHAI BIDERMAN Take Five: How Should I Live My Life? PLEASANTVILLE 15. Pleasantville, Aristotle, and the Meaning of Life ERIC REITAN SPIDERMAN AND SPIDERMAN II 16. Of Spiderman, Spiderman II, and Living Like a Hero JONATHAN SANDFORD MINORITY REPORT 17. So Tired of the Future: Freedom and Determinism in Minority Report SHAI BIDERMAN AND NIR EISIKOVITS PULP FICTION 18. Grace, Fate, and Accident in Pulp Fiction MICHAEL SILBERSTEIN GROUNDHOG DAY 19. What Nietzsche Could Teach You: Eternal Recurrence in Groundhog Day JAMES SPENCE You Mean We Have to Say Something About Ourselves? Index A compelling collection of essays explores philosophical issues through the lens of popular Hollywood films, finding interesting topics in Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, American Beauty, and many other movies. Original. 6723 Películas cinematográficas 1867 Cine Filosofía 12563 Blessing, Kimberly A. editora (Kimberly Ann) 12564 Tudico, Paul J. editor lcc BK dpf 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2020-08-21 0 PN 1995 M935 2005 00000144131 2020-08-21 00:00:00 1 2020-08-21 BK