Movies and the Meaning of Life

Movies and the Meaning of Life
Author: Kimberly A. Blessing,Paul Tudico
Publsiher: Open Court
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780812698749

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"The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions," said the existentiallist thinker Albert Camus. And no less a philosopher than Woody Allen has wondered:"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" "Movies and the Meaning of Life" looks at popular and cult movies, examining their assumptions and insights on meaning-of-life questions: What is reality and how can I know it? (The Truman Show, Contact, Waking Life); How do I find myself and my true identity? (Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, Memento); How do I find meaning from my interactions with others? (Pulp Fiction, Shadowlands, Chasing Amy); What is the chief purpose in life? (American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, The Shawshank Redemption); and How ought I live my life? (Pleasantville, Spiderman, Minority Report, Groundhog Day).

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Author: Wendy Mass
Publsiher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2010-11-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780316180368

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In one month Jeremy Fink will turn thirteen. But does he have what it takes to be a teenager? He collects mutant candy, he won't venture more than four blocks from his apartment if he can help it, and he definitely doesn't like surprises. On the other hand, his best friend, Lizzy, isn't afraid of anything, even if that might get her into trouble now and then. Jeremy's summer takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious wooden box arrives in the mail. According to the writing on the box, it holds the meaning of life! Jeremy is supposed to open it on his thirteenth birthday. The problem is, the keys are missing, and the box is made so that only the keys will open it without destroying what's inside. Jeremy and Lizzy set off to find the keys, but when one of their efforts goes very wrong, Jeremy starts to lose hope that he'll ever be able to open the box. But he soon discovers that when you're meeting people named Oswald Oswald and using a private limo to deliver unusual objects to strangers all over the city, there might be other ways of finding out the meaning of life. Lively characters, surprising twists, and thought-provoking ideas make Wendy Mass's latest novel an unforgettable read.

What s It All About

What s It All About
Author: Julian Baggini
Publsiher: Granta Publications
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2013-07-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781847089205

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“Secular-minded readers seeking an alternative to The Purpose-Driven Life have an excellent starting point here.”—Publishers Weekly For readers who are serious about confronting the big issues in life—but are turned off by books which deal with them through religion, spirituality, or psychobabble, this is an honest, intelligent discussion by a philosopher that doesn't hide from the difficulties or make undeliverable promises. It aims to help the reader understand the overlooked issues behind the obvious questions, and shows how philosophy does not so much answer them as help provide us with the resources to answer them for ourselves. “Useful and provocative.”—The Wall Street Journal “Looking for a clear guide to what contemporary philosophy has to say about the meaning of life? Baggini takes us through all the plausible answers, weaving together Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, Monty Python, and Funkadelic in an entertaining but always carefully reasoned discussion.”—Peter Singer, author of How Are We To Live “The question of the meaning of life has long been a byword for pretentious rambling. It takes some nerve to tackle it in a brisk and no-nonsense fashion.”—New Statesman

Life The Movie

Life  The Movie
Author: Neal Gabler
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2000-02-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780375706530

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The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment. Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Starr vs. William Jefferson Clinton. Real Life as Entertainment is hardly a new phenomenon, but the movies, and now the new information technologies, have so accelerated it that it is now the reigning popular art form. How this came to pass, and just what it means for our culture and our personal lives, is the subject of this witty, concerned, and sometimes eye-opening book. "A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --The New York Times Book Review

Movies and the Meaning of Life

Movies and the Meaning of Life
Author: Zetmec
Publsiher: Booklocker.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 098162040X

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Full of fun quotes, buzz, and dozens of ideas for movies to rent, this is thefirst pocket guide in The Good Movie Guide series.

Finding Meaning at the Movies

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.

Movies and Meaning

Movies and Meaning
Author: Stephen Prince
Publsiher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0205314155

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Movies and Meaning is a comprehensive introduction to the film industry that focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. It examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen.

The Films of Woody Allen

The Films of Woody Allen
Author: Sam B. Girgus
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2002-11-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521009294

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