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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Thinking media
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Thinking media.
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| Summary |
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Skepticism in motion pictures.
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Skepticism in motion pictures. |
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Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures.
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Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schmerheim, Philipp. Skepticism films. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2016] 1501310976 9781501310973 (OCoLC)907941534 |
| ISBN |
9781501310997 (electronic book) |
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1501310992 (electronic book) |
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9781501310973 |
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1501310976 |
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9781501310980 (ePub) |
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