Finding Ourselves At The Movies
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Finding Ourselves at the Movies
Author | : Paul W. Kahn |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780231164382 |
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Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy—love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith—remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues philosophy must be brought to bear on contemporary discourse surrounding these primal concerns, and he shows how this can be achieved through a turn to popular film. In such well-known movies as Forrest Gump (1994), The American President (1995), The Matrix (1999), Memento (2000), The History of Violence (2005), Gran Torino (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), The Road (2009), and Avatar (2009), Kahn explores powerful archetypes and their hold on us, and he treats our present-day anxieties over justice, love, and faith as signs these traditional imaginative structures have failed. His inquiry proceeds in two parts. First, he uses film to explore the nature of action and interpretation, and narrative, not abstraction, emerges as the critical concept for understanding both. Second, he explores the narratives of politics, family, and faith as they appear in popular films. Engaging with genres as diverse as romantic comedies, slasher films, and pornography, Kahn gains access to the social imaginary, through which we create and maintain a meaningful world.
Finding Meaning at the Movies
Author | : Sara Anson Vaux |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0687067219 |
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Movies mirror our desires and dreams, but they also shape them, as we struggle to understand ourselves and our world in relation to God. Finding Meaning at the Movies is a guide for groups and indivuduals who wish to explore - through movies - major themes, issues, and questions that we all have in common. Sara Ansen Vaux takes the reader on a cinematic journey, showing how to look for messages of value and meaning by examining not only the content of a film, but also the ways (cinematography, color, sound) that a movie tells a story.
Finding Ourselves at the Movies
Author | : Paul W. Kahn |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780231536028 |
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Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy—love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith—remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find them in contemporary culture. He demonstrates how this can be achieved through a turn to popular film. Discussing such well-known movies as Forrest Gump (1994), The American President (1995), The Matrix (1999), Memento (2000), The History of Violence (2005), Gran Torino (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), The Road (2009), and Avatar (2009), Kahn explores powerful archetypes and their hold on us. His inquiry proceeds in two parts. First, he uses film to explore the nature of action and interpretation, arguing that narrative is the critical concept for understanding both. Second, he explores the narratives of politics, family, and faith as they appear in popular films. Engaging with genres as diverse as romantic comedy, slasher film, and pornography, Kahn explores the social imaginary through which we create and maintain a meaningful world. He finds in popular films a new setting for a philosophical inquiry into the timeless themes of sacrifice, innocence, rebirth, law, and love.
Reel People
Author | : Howard M. Gluss |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Characters and characteristics in motion pictures |
ISBN | : OCLC:1359391012 |
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Reel People
Author | : Howard M. Gluss,PH D Gluss |
Publsiher | : Keylight Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-04 |
Genre | : Characters and characteristics |
ISBN | : 0971447705 |
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A hands-on process of creating authentic stories, this book provides creative artists with an exciting analytical tool to help in the process of character creation. Various personality styles depicted in films are examined, as well as why they are celebrated in hundreds of films. Behavioural traits that define a person and recognisable attributes such as speech, profession, dress, and health are analysed in depth. This guide offers a valuable list of films to study to see how others interpret the personality as well as a useful template of questions to ask when developing consistent and convincing character psychologys.
Finding God in the Movies
Author | : Catherine M. Barsotti,Robert K. Johnston |
Publsiher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780801064814 |
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Experience God in the movies! A valuable resource guide examining over thirty films and their theological impact. Excellent for film buffs and church leaders alike.
Sculpting in Time
Author | : Andrey Tarkovsky,Kitty Hunter-Blair |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1989-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0292776241 |
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A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity
Beyond the Public Sphere
Author | : Maria Pia Lara |
Publsiher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780810142916 |
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In Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary, the renowned philosopher and critical theorist María Pía Lara challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. Drawing on a wide range of films—including The Milk of Sorrow, Ixcanul, Wadja, The Stone of Patience, Marnie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Talk to Her—Lara dissects cinematic images of women’s struggles and their oppression. She builds on this analysis, developing a concept of the feminist social imaginary as a broader and more complex space that provides a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation in response to forms of domination perpetuated by patriarchal capitalism.