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Skepticism films : knowing and doubting the world in contemporary cinema / Philipp Schmerheim.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thinking mediaPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501310997
  • 1501310992
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Skepticism films.DDC classification:
  • 791.4301 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S5533
Other classification:
  • SOC052000 | PHI000000 | SCI000000
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Introduction: Skepticism Films. A Certain Tendency in Contemporary Cinema -- Part 1 Thinking Through Cinema; 2 Films as Configurations of Philosophical Thought -- 3 Remediating Philosophy, or: The Media of Philosophical Thought -- Part 2 Skepticism in Film Philosophy; 4 Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism: Knowledge, Acknowledgment, and Trust -- 5 A Moving Image of Skepticism? Philosophy's Acknowledgment of Film -- 6 A Cinema for Believers. Trust, Belief, and the Expulsion from the Paradise of Childhood -- Part 3 Skepticism Films; 7 Varieties of Skepticism Films -- 8 Tools for Philosophical Film Analysis -- 9 (Not) Knowing My World: External World Skepticism Films. A Comparative Analysis of The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and The Truman Show -- 10 Not Knowing My Self: Self-Knowledge Skepticism Films -- 11 Coda. From Doubt to Acknowledgment, or: The Philosophical Significance of Skepticism Films Revisited.
Summary: "A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Introduction: Skepticism Films. A Certain Tendency in Contemporary Cinema -- Part 1 Thinking Through Cinema; 2 Films as Configurations of Philosophical Thought -- 3 Remediating Philosophy, or: The Media of Philosophical Thought -- Part 2 Skepticism in Film Philosophy; 4 Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism: Knowledge, Acknowledgment, and Trust -- 5 A Moving Image of Skepticism? Philosophy's Acknowledgment of Film -- 6 A Cinema for Believers. Trust, Belief, and the Expulsion from the Paradise of Childhood -- Part 3 Skepticism Films; 7 Varieties of Skepticism Films -- 8 Tools for Philosophical Film Analysis -- 9 (Not) Knowing My World: External World Skepticism Films. A Comparative Analysis of The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and The Truman Show -- 10 Not Knowing My Self: Self-Knowledge Skepticism Films -- 11 Coda. From Doubt to Acknowledgment, or: The Philosophical Significance of Skepticism Films Revisited.

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