TY - BOOK AU - Schmerheim,Philipp TI - Skepticism films: knowing and doubting the world in contemporary cinema T2 - Thinking media SN - 9781501310997 AV - PN1995.9.S5533 U1 - 791.4301 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Skepticism KW - In motion pictures KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Motion pictures KW - Philosophy KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Reference KW - bisacsh KW - Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures KW - fast KW - Skepticism in motion pictures KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"-- UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1060674 ER -