Rupert Read

A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment

Sprachen: Englisch. 23,5 cm / 15,7 cm / 1,8 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781138596023
248,40 €
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246 Seiten
Oktober 2018
Routledge

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywood films.

Rupert Readis Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is a former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion collective, an environmental activist and a former Green Party councillor. His most recent books include Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside(with Samuel Alexander) (2020), This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond (2019) and A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment(2018).

Introduction: Film as Freedom: The Meaning of Film as Philosophy 1. Implicating the Narrator, Implicating the Audience: Waltz with Bashir and Apocalypto 2. How to Represent a Past We Would Rather Forget: Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad 3. Learning from Conceptually Impossible Versions of Our World: Never Let Me Go and The Road 4. When Melancholia is Exactly What is Called For: Melancholia and Solaris 5. Gravity's arc; or Gravity: A Space Odyssey 6. The Fantasy of Absolute Safety through Absolute Power: The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar Conclusion: What have we learnt?