Steven Spielberg and philosophy we're gonna need a bigger book /
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
c2008.
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| Series: | The philosophy of popular culture
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10257405 |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Philosophy, the filmmaker, and the human condition.
- The "big-little" film and philosophy: two takes on Spielbergian innocence / Gary Arms and Thomas Riley
- The recovery of childhood and the search for the absent father / Michel Le Gall and Charles Taliaferro
- Levinasian ethics of alterity: the face of the other in Spielberg's cinematic language / John W. Wright
- The paradox of fictional belief and its moral implications in Jaws / Christopher R. Trogan and Dean A. Kowalski
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and the tragic sense of life / Timothy Dunn
- pt. 2. Values, virtue, and justice.
- What is wrong with cloning a dinosaur? Jurassic Park and nature as a source of moral authority / James H. Spence
- Is Oskar Schindler a good man? / Roger P. Ebertz
- A Spielbergian ethics of the family in Saving Private Ryan and The Color Purple / Robert R. Clewis
- Human rights, human nature, and Amistad / David Baggett and Mark W. Foreman
- Terrorism, counterterrorism, and "The story of what happens next" in Munich / Joseph J. Foy
- pt. 3. Realism, mind and metaphysics.
- Spielberg and cinematic realism / Keith Dromm
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence: artistic indulgence or advanced inquiry? / V. Alan White
- Minority Report, Molinism, and the viability of Precrime / Dean A. Kowalski
- Appendix: Discussing five Spielberg films.