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Cracks in the pedestal : ideology and gender in Hollywood / Philip Green Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c1998.
Call No: 626:396 GREAuthor: Green, Philip, 1932 Place: AmherstPublisher: University of Massachusetts PressPubDate: c1998PhysDes: viii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FILM NOIR. USA ; CREED, BARBARA ; MULVEY, LAURA ; STONE, SHARON ; ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) ; FURNESS, DEBORRA-LEE ; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) ; IMPULSE (US, Sandra Locke, 1990) ; LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994) ; MS 45 (US, Abel Ferrara, 1981) ; NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; RIVER WILD, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1994) ; SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988) ; SHAME [TV] (US, 1992) ; SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; VANISHING, THE (US, George Sluizer, 1993) ; SPOORLOOS (NE/FR, George Sluizer, 1988) Summary: Distinguishing his own neo-Marxist approach from that of other media scholars, Philip Green pursues two interrelated themes. In the first part of the book, he looks at the strategies Hollywood has employed to deflect or absorb the ideological challenges posed by the feminist critique of contemporary American society. He demonstrates the ways in which mainstream movies and television programs, no matter how unconventional or "subversive" they may appear, produce and reproduce familiar images of sexuality and gender identity. In the second part, Green highlights instances in which reproduction of the dominant ideology is less successful by examining several recent cinematic genres - the female action movie, the rape-revenge cycle, and the new film noir - that portray the real ambiguities of a social order in upheaval; As a male consumer of the cultural commodities being discussed, the author offers a perspective on American films and television different from that of most other feminist criticsNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-248) and indexISBN: 1558491198 (cloth : alk. paper); 1558491201 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 13262384ID2: 290
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The dread of difference : gender and the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Call No: 735.2 DREAuthor: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947 Edition: 1st edPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xv, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Texas film studies seriesSubject: HORROR FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SLASHER FILMS ; DRACULA IN FILMS ; ARGENTO, DARIO ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979) ; ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986) ; ALIEN 3 (US, David Fincher, 1992) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, Tom Savini, 1990) ; CARRIE (US, Brian De Palma, 1976) ; CAT PEOPLE (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1942) ; CAT PEOPLE (US, Paul Schrader, 1982) ; BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (US, James Whale, 1935) ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; STEPFATHER, THE (US, Joseph Ruben, 1986) ; LEVRES ROUGES, LES (BE/FR/GW, Harry Kumel, 1971) ; FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) ; ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-438) and indexISBN: 0292727941 (pbk : alk. paper); 0292727933 (hc : alk. paper)LON: 12195767
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Family fictions : representations of the family in 1980s Hollywood cinema. / Sarah Harwood; foreword by Janet Thumin; consultant editor Jo Camping Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamps: Macmillan, 1997.
Call No: 747.4 HARAuthor: Harwood, Sarah Source: UKPlace: Houndmills, Basingstoke, HampsPublisher: MacmillanPubDate: 1997PhysDes: x, 265p. ; 23cmSubject: FAMILY IN FILMS ; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; BARRYMORE, DREW ; BRIDGES, LLOYD ; CLOSE, GLENN ; DOUGLAS, MICHAEL ; GRAVES, PETER ; NIELSEN, LESLIE ; WILLIS, BRUCE ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) ; FLYING HIGH II [ ; TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (US, James L. Brooks, 1983) Summary: What do ET, Fatal Attraction and Look Whos Talking have in common? . As well as being amongst the most popular films at the UK box office of recent years all three represent dysfunctional families, families which profoundly transgressed contemporary ideological norms. The eighties were a decade in which the family occupied a pivotal position in an increasinglingly complex social and moral universe and film itself enjoyed a resurgence. Sarah Harwood argues that Hollywood cinema engaged with debates over the' crisis in the family' in intense and complex ways, both feeding and resisting dominant social mythologies In a fascinating analysis of films as diverse as 'Aiplane!' and 'Terms of Endearment' Family Fictions maps the functions, paradoxes and pleasures of familial representations in recent times. These startling analyses shed light on power and gender relations in contemporary cinema as well as on how the films themselves engaged with their broader cultural contextsNotes: Filmography : p. 248-252; Bibliography : p. 253-258; Includes indexISBN: 0333648439 (hbk); 0333648447 (pbk)
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FATAL ATTRACTION : (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987)
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Fatal Attraction in Cinema Papers (March 1988) iss.68 p.42-44
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Fatal Attraction in Filmviews (Autumn 1988) vol.33 iss.135 p.5-6
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Fatal Attraction in Filmviews (Autumn 1988) vol.33 iss.135 p.2-5
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High contrast : race and gender in contemporary Hollywood film / Sharon Willis Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997.
Call No: 451-054(73) WILAuthor: Willis, Sharon Place: Durham, N.C.Publisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 1997PhysDes: 266 p. ; 24 cmSubject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; ACTION FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA ; MEN IN FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; LEE, SPIKE ; LYNCH, DAVID ; TARANTINO, QUENTIN ; DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988) ; LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) ; WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989) ; FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) Summary: In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little apparent regard for the political context in which they operate - Willis restores that context through close readings of a range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin TarantinoNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-257) and indexISBN: 0822320290 (cloth : acid-free paper); 082232041X (pbk. : acid-free paper)LON: 97013147; 13158378Contents: Part 1. Battles of the sexes -- 1. Mutilated Masculinties and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons -- 2. Insides Out: Public and Private Exchanges from Fatal Attraction to Basic Instinct -- 3. Combative Femininity: Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2 -- Part II. Ethnographies of the "White" Gaze -- 4. Do the Wrong Thing: David Lynch's Perverse Style -- 5. Tell the Right Story: Spike Lee and the Politics of Representative Style -- 6. Borrowed "Style": Quentin Tarantino's Figures of Masculinity
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Offscreen onscreen : the inside stories of 60 great films / Peter van Gelder London: Aurum, 1990.
Call No: 792(047.1) GELAuthor: Van Gelder, Peter Place: LondonPublisher: AurumPubDate: 1990PhysDes: 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FLYING HIGH II [ ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989) ; BEVERLY HILLS COP (US, Martin Brest, 1984) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945) ; BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (US, George Roy Hill, 1969) ; CARRY ON CLEO (UK, Gerald Thomas, 1964) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; CHARIOTS OF FIRE (UK, Hugh Hudson, 1981) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986) ; DAM BUSTERS, THE (UK, Michael Anderson, 1955) ; DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971) ; DUCK SOUP (US, Leo McCarey, 1933) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) ; FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940) ; FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) ; [FORTY-SECOND] 42ND STREET (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933) ; FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931) ; FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1971) ; GENEVIEVE (UK, Henry Cornelius, 1953) ; GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) ; GOLDFINGER (UK, Guy Hamilton, 1964) ; GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) ; GREASE (US, Randal Kleisner, 1978) ; HARD DAY'S NIGHT, A (UK, Richard Lester, 1964) ; HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944) ; HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; HIGH SOCIETY (US, Charles Walters, 1956) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; LAVENDER HILL MOB, THE (UK, Charles Crichton, 1951) ; LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (UK, David Lean, 1962) ; MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE (UK, John Sturges, 1960) ; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941) ; M*A*S*H (US, Robert Altman, 1969) ; ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975) ; PINK PANTHER, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) ; RAMBO : FIRST BLOOD PART II (US, George Pan Cosmatos, 1985) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) ; ROAD TO MOROCCO (US, David Butler, 1942) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949) ; TOOTSIE (US, Sydney Pollack, 1982) ; TOP HAT (US, Mark Sandrich, 1935) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (US, Roger Zemekis, 1988) ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ISBN: 1854101617; 1854101617 (pbk) : ¦9.95 : CIP confirmedLON: bnc85410161; 7335916
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Philosophy goes to the movies : an introduction to philosophy / Christopher Falzon London: Routledge, 2002.
Call No: 626 FALAuthor: Falzon, Christopher Edition: third editionPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2002PhysDes: 330p. : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; A NOUS, LA LIBERTE! (FR, Rene Clair, 1931) ; ADDICTION, THE (US, Abel Ferrara, 1995) ; AGNES OF GOD (US, Norman Jewison, 1985) ; AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD [AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES] (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972) ; ALIEN RESURRECTION (US, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997) ; ALL OF ME (US, Carl Reiner, 1984) ; ALPHAVILLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ; AMADEUS (US, Milos Forman, 1984) ; AMATEUR (US, Hal Hartley, 1994) ; ANGEL HEART (US, Alan Parker, 1987) ; ANTZ (US, Eric Darnell, Lawrence Guterman & Tim Johnson II, 1998) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA (US, Mike Judge, 1996) ; BEDAZZLED (US, Stanely Donen, 1967) ; BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (UK/US, Spike Jonze, 1999) ; BEING THERE (US, Hal Ashby, 1979) ; BIG (US, Penny Marshall, 1988) ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BLAISE PASCAL (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1972) ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; BOB ROBERTS (US, Tim Robbins, 1992) ; BRAZIL ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; CASPER (US, Brad Silberling, 1995) ; CHANCES ARE (US, Emile Ardolino, 1989) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; CINEMA PLUS ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971) ; COLOSSUS: FORBIN PROJECT (US, Joseph Sargent, 1970) ; CONFORMIST, THE [CONFORMISTA, IL] (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) ; COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989) ; CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (US, Woody Allen, 1989) ; CRIMES OF PASSION (US, Ken Russell, 1984) ; CRUCIBLE, THE (US, Nicholas Hytner, 1996) ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; DANGEROUS LIAISONS (US, Stephen Frears, 1988) ; DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997) ; DARK STAR (US, John Carpenter, 1974) ; DEAD AGAIN (US, Kenneth Branagh, 1991) ; DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1976) ; DRACULA (US, Tod Browning, 1931) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; EDUCATING RITA (UK, Lewis Gilbert, 1983) ; ELEPHANT MAN, THE (US, David Lynch, 1980) ; ENEMY OF THE STATE (US, Tony Scott, 1998) ; JEDER FUR SICH UND GOTT GEGEN ALLE (GW, Werner Herzog, 1974) ; FACE/OFF (US, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1997) ; FAHRENHEIT 451 (UK, Francois Truffaut, 1966) ; FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) ; [FIVE] 5 EASY PIECES (US, Bob Rafelson, 1970) ; FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) ; FORTRESS (AT/US, Stuart Gordon, 1993) ; FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931) ; FRIGHTENERS, THE (NZ/US, Peter Jackson, 1996) ; FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987) ; GATTACA (US, Andrew Niccol, 1997) ; GHOST (US, Jerry Zucker, 1990) ; GHOSTS... OF THE CIVIL DEAD (AT, John Hillcoat, 1988) ; GROUNDHOG DAY (US, Harold Ramis, 1993) ; HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (US/GW, Volker Schlondorff, 1990) ; HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (US, Woody Allen, 1986) ; HE SAID, SHE SAID (US, Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver, 1991) ; HIGH HOPES (UK, Mike Leigh, 1988) ; HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; HILARY AND JACKIE (UK, Anand Tucker, 1998) ; MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (UK, Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1974) ; IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968) ; INHERIT THE WIND (US, Stanley Kramer, 1960) ; INTERIORS (US, Woody Allen, 1978) ; INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (US, Neil Jordan, 1994) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, THE (US, Erle C. Kenton, 1932) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (US, Stanley Kramer, 1961) ; JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993) ; KOYAANISQATSI (US, Godfrey Reggio, 1982) ; LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD (UK, Kenneth Loach, 1994) ; ULTIMA CENA, LA (CU, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1976) ; MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (UK, Terry Jones, 1979) ; LOVE AND DEATH (US, Woody Allen, 1975) ; M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941) ; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; MATEWAN (US, John Sayles, 1987) ; MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999) ; MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (UK, Terry Jones, 1983) ; MEPHISTO (HU/GW, Istvan Szabo, 1981) ; METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926) ; MISSION, THE (UK, Roland Joffe, 1986) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MON ONCLE (FR/IT, Jacques Tati, 1958) ; MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (UK, Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1974) ; MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS [TV] (UK, 1969-1974) ; MY FAIR LADY (US, George Cukor, 1964) ; NAME OF THE ROSE, THE [NAME DER ROSE, DER] (GW/IT/FR, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986) ; NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979) ; NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE (US, Jerry Lewis, 1963) ; O LUCKY MAN! (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1973) ; OKTIABR [OCTOBER] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1928) ; OLIVIER, OLIVIER (FR, Agnieszka Holland, 1992) ; ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975) ; PEOPLE VS LARRY FLYNT, THE (US, Milos Forman, 1996) ; PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992) ; PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967) ; PRINCESS BRIDE, THE (US, Rob Reiner, 1987) ; PURA FORMALITA, UNA (IT/FR, Guiseppe Tornatore, 1994) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; QUIZ SHOW (US, Robert Redford, 1994) ; RAIN (US, Louis Milestone, 1932) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; RAPTURE, THE (US, Michael Tolkin, 1991) ; RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) ; RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE, LE (FR, Daniel Vigne, 1982) ; ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987) ; ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (UK, Tom Stoppard, 1990) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (US, Steven Spielberg, 1998) ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; SEA OF LOVE (US, Harold Becker, 1989) ; SEVEN [SE7EN] (US, David Fincher, 1995) ; SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ; SHOCKER (US, Wes Craven, 1989) ; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991) ; SIMON DEL DESIERTO (MX, Luis Bunuel, 1965) ; SLEEPER (US, Woody Allen, 1973) ; SOPHIE'S CHOICE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1982) ; STAGE FRIGHT (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1950) ; STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (US, Nicholas Meyer, 1982) ; STAR TREK ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; SUTURE (US, Scott McGehee & David Siegel, 1993) ; SWITCH (US, Blake Edwards, 1991) ; TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) ; TESTAMENT DU DOCTEUR CORDELIER, LE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1961) ; THINGS TO COME (UK, William Cameron Menzies, 1936) ; TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) ; THREE FACES OF EVE (US, Nunnally Johnson, 1957) ; TOTAL RECALL (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1990) ; TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998) ; USUAL SUSPECTS, THE (US, Bryan Singer, 1995) ; VICE VERSA (US, Brian Gilbert, 1988) ; JUNGFRUKALLAN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1960) ; WAG THE DOG (US, Barry Levinson, 1997) ; WALL STREET (US, Oliver Stone, 1987) ; WILD ONE, THE (US, Laslo Benedek, 1953) ; WITTGENSTEIN (UK, Derek Jarman, 1993) ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Summary: Now emulated in several competing publications, but still unsurpassed in clarity and insight, Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, Third Edition builds on the approach that made the two earlier editions so successful. Drawing on many popular and some lesser known films from around the world, Christopher Falzon introduces students to key areas in philosophy, like: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, The Theory of Knowledge, The Self and Personal Identity, Critical Thinking.
Perfect for beginners, this book guides the reader through philosophy using illuminating cinematic works, like Avatar, Inception, Fight Club, Wings of Desire, Run Lola Run, A Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, Dirty Harry and many other films.
The fully revised and updated Third Edition features: an expanded introduction that provides a new discussion of the relationship between film and philosophy; new material on notable philosophers such as Aristotle, Merleau-Ponty and Rawls; and coverage of new topics like virtue ethics and what Socrates offers for critical thinking. An updated glossary, references and bibliography, and a filmography, are also included in the Third Edition. -- publisher's web siteNotes: Includes glossaryISBN: 9780415538169Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1 - Plato’s Picture Show - the theory of knowledge -- 2 - All of Me - the self and personal identity -- 3 - Crimes and Misdemeanors - moral philosophy -- 4 - Antz - social and political philosophy -- 5 - Modern Times - society, science, and technology -- 6 - The Holy Grail - critical thinking -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
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