Finding Ourselves At The Movies

Author : Paul W. Kahn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231164382

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Finding Ourselves at the Movies by Paul W. Kahn Pdf

Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy—love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith—remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues philosophy must be brought to bear on contemporary discourse surrounding these primal concerns, and he shows how this can be achieved through a turn to popular film. In such well-known movies as Forrest Gump (1994), The American President (1995), The Matrix (1999), Memento (2000), The History of Violence (2005), Gran Torino (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), The Road (2009), and Avatar (2009), Kahn explores powerful archetypes and their hold on us, and he treats our present-day anxieties over justice, love, and faith as signs these traditional imaginative structures have failed. His inquiry proceeds in two parts. First, he uses film to explore the nature of action and interpretation, and narrative, not abstraction, emerges as the critical concept for understanding both. Second, he explores the narratives of politics, family, and faith as they appear in popular films. Engaging with genres as diverse as romantic comedies, slasher films, and pornography, Kahn gains access to the social imaginary, through which we create and maintain a meaningful world.

Author : Paul W. Kahn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231536028

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Finding Ourselves at the Movies by Paul W. Kahn Pdf

Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy—love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith—remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find them in contemporary culture. He demonstrates how this can be achieved through a turn to popular film. Discussing such well-known movies as Forrest Gump (1994), The American President (1995), The Matrix (1999), Memento (2000), The History of Violence (2005), Gran Torino (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), The Road (2009), and Avatar (2009), Kahn explores powerful archetypes and their hold on us. His inquiry proceeds in two parts. First, he uses film to explore the nature of action and interpretation, arguing that narrative is the critical concept for understanding both. Second, he explores the narratives of politics, family, and faith as they appear in popular films. Engaging with genres as diverse as romantic comedy, slasher film, and pornography, Kahn explores the social imaginary through which we create and maintain a meaningful world. He finds in popular films a new setting for a philosophical inquiry into the timeless themes of sacrifice, innocence, rebirth, law, and love.

Author : Howard M. Gluss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
ISBN : OCLC:1359391012

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Reel People by Howard M. Gluss Pdf

Author : Howard M. Gluss,PH D Gluss
Publisher : Keylight Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Characters and characteristics
ISBN : 0971447705

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Reel People by Howard M. Gluss,PH D Gluss Pdf

A hands-on process of creating authentic stories, this book provides creative artists with an exciting analytical tool to help in the process of character creation. Various personality styles depicted in films are examined, as well as why they are celebrated in hundreds of films. Behavioural traits that define a person and recognisable attributes such as speech, profession, dress, and health are analysed in depth. This guide offers a valuable list of films to study to see how others interpret the personality as well as a useful template of questions to ask when developing consistent and convincing character psychologys.

Author : Nathan Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317805885

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Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and Cinema by Nathan Andersen Pdf

Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato’s Republic, comparing their contributions to themes such as the nature of experience and meaning, the character of justice, the contrast between appearance and reality, the importance of art, and the impact of images. At the heart of the book is a novel account of the analogy between Plato’s allegory of the cave and cinema, developed in conjunction with a provocative interpretation of the most powerful image from A Clockwork Orange, in which the lead character is strapped to a chair and forced to watch violent films. Key features of the book include: a comprehensive bibliography of suggested readings on Plato, on film, on philosophy, and on the philosophy of film a list of suggested films that can be explored following the approach in this book, including brief descriptions of each film, and suggestions regarding its philosophical implications a summary of Plato’s Republic, book by book, highlighting both dramatic context and subject matter. Offering a close reading of the controversial classic film A Clockwork Orange, and an introductory account of the central themes of the philosophical classic The Republic, this book will be of interest to both scholars and students of philosophy and film, as well as to readers of Plato and fans of Stanley Kubrick.

Author : Andrew Potter
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551993478

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The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter Pdf

One of Canada's hippest, smartest cultural critics takes on the West's defining value. We live in a world increasingly dominated by the fake, the prepackaged, the artificial: fast food, scripted reality TV shows, Facebook "friends," and fraudulent memoirs. But people everywhere are demanding the exact opposite, heralding "authenticity" as the cure for isolated individualism and shallow consumerism. Restaurants promote the authenticity of their cuisine, while condo developers promote authentic loft living and book reviewers regularly praise the authenticity of a new writer's voice. International bestselling author Andrew Potter brilliantly unpacks our modern obsession with authenticity. In this perceptive and thought-provoking blend of pop culture, history, and philosophy, he finds that far from serving as a refuge from modern living, the search for authenticity often creates the very problems it's meant to solve.

Author : Catherine M. Barsotti,Robert K. Johnston
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780801064814

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Finding God in the Movies by Catherine M. Barsotti,Robert K. Johnston Pdf

Experience God in the movies! A valuable resource guide examining over thirty films and their theological impact. Excellent for film buffs and church leaders alike.

Author : Maria Pia Lara
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810142916

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Beyond the Public Sphere by Maria Pia Lara Pdf

In Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary, the renowned philosopher and critical theorist María Pía Lara challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. Drawing on a wide range of films—including The Milk of Sorrow, Ixcanul, Wadja, The Stone of Patience, Marnie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Talk to Her—Lara dissects cinematic images of women’s struggles and their oppression. She builds on this analysis, developing a concept of the feminist social imaginary as a broader and more complex space that provides a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation in response to forms of domination perpetuated by patriarchal capitalism.

Author : Judith A. Belmont
Publisher : PESI Publishing & Media
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780974971193

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86 TIPS for the Therapeutic Toolbox by Judith A. Belmont Pdf

This book assists in breaking through treatment resistance and defensiveness. Dozens of reproducible handouts, experiential activities, exercises, self-discovery tools and more are included.

Author : Sidney Homan,Hernán Vera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611479263

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Hitler in the Movies by Sidney Homan,Hernán Vera Pdf

In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Führer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler. What made him … Hitler? Do our explanations tell us more about the perceiver than the actual historical figure? We ask such question by viewing the Hitler character in the movies. How have directors, actors, film critics, and audiences accounted for this monster in a medium that reflects public tastes and opinions? The book first looks at comedic films, such as Chaplain’s The Great Dictator or Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942), along with the Mel Brooks’s 1983 version. Then, there is the Hitler of fantasy, from trash films like The Saved Hitler’s Brain to a serious work like The Boys from Brazil where Hitler is cloned. Psychological portraits include Anthony Hopkins’s The Bunker, the surreal The Empty Mirror, and Max, a portrait of Hitler in his days in Vienna as a would-be artist. Documentaries and docudramas range from Leni Reinfenstahl’s iconic The Triumph of the Will or The Hidden Führer, to the controversial Hitler: A Film from Germany and Quentin Tarantino’s fanciful Inglourious Basterds. Hitler in the Movies also considers the ways Der Führer remains today, as a ghostly presence, if not an actual character. Why is he still with us in everything from political smears to video games to merchandise? In trying to explain this and the man himself, what might we learn about ourselves and our society?

Author : Andrey Tarkovsky,Kitty Hunter-Blair
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292776241

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Sculpting in Time by Andrey Tarkovsky,Kitty Hunter-Blair Pdf

A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity

Author : Dorothy Anne Field
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783748736950

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Finding Yourself In Between Falling In Love by Dorothy Anne Field Pdf

This book is dedicated to everyone who has had their hearts taken advantage of by the cruelty of this world when all they ever did was fall in love; To everyone who lost themselves in love, only to find themselves right back; To every genuine soul out there who has done nothing but love people to their maximum capacity, even as it came with a price; To everyone who has had to go through the darkness, the brokenness, and the madness of love to find out what love truly is. This book is for you.

Author : Doru Pop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501366239

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Romanian Cinema by Doru Pop Pdf

This volume explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking mechanisms of modern humans and into our collective psyche, this study focuses on the elements that form the “Romanian cinematic mind” as part of the European cinema-thinking. While this book is based on specific case studies provided by recent productions in Romanian filmmaking, such as Proroca (2017) and Touch me Not (2018), it also contextualises the national cinema within the larger, European art of making movies. Offering close interpretations of the works of world-renowned directors like Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Corneliu Porumboiu or more recently Adina Pintilie and Constantin Popescu, this book questions the “Romanianess” of their cinematic techniques, and places their philosophical roots both in a particular mode of thinking and within continental philosophy.

Author : Nathan Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317805823

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Film, Philosophy, and Reality by Nathan Andersen Pdf

Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard is an original contribution to film-philosophy that shows how thinking about movies can lead us into a richer appreciation and understanding of both reality and the nature of human experience. Focused on the question of the relationship between how things seem to us and how they really are, it is at once an introduction to philosophy through film and an introduction to film through philosophy. The book is divided into three parts. The first is an introduction to philosophy and film, designed for the reader with little background in one or the other subject. The second examines the philosophical importance of the distinction between appearance and reality, and shows that reflection upon this distinction is naturally provoked by the experience of watching movies. The final part takes a close and careful look at the style and techniques of Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking film Breathless in order to illustrate how such themes can be explored cinematically. The book addresses topics such as: Film: what it is and how to understand it The methods and concerns of philosophy The nature of cinematic appearances The history of metaphysics The relationship between cinema and life The philosophical relevance of film techniques. With a glossary of key thinkers, terms, and concepts, as well as sections on suggested films and further reading, this textbook will appeal to lecturers and students in undergraduate philosophy and film courses, and in courses focused on Philosophy of Film, Philosophy and Film, or Film-Philosophy.

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307489739

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The Power of Movies by Colin McGinn Pdf

How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us to experience the thoughts and feelings of a movie’s characters? These and related questions are at the heart of The Power of Movies, a thoughtful, invigorating, and remarkably accessible book about a phenomenon seemingly beyond reach of our understanding. Colin McGinn–“an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream,” according to Steven Pinker–enhances our understanding of both movies and ourselves in this book of rare and refreshing insight.