Richard A. Gilmore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia College.
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: What It Means to Do Philosophy
1
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1. John Ford's The Searchers as an Allegory of the Philosophical Search
15
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2. A The Usual Suspects Moment in Vertigo: The Epistemology of Identity
33
(24)
3. The American Sublime in Fargo
57
(24)
4. Visions of Meaning: Seeing and Non-Seeing in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors
81
(14)
5. Oedipus Techs: Time Travel as Redemption in The Terminator and 12 Monkeys
95
(14)
6. Into the Toilet: Some Classical Aesthetic Themes Raised by a Scene in Trainspotting
109
(12)
7. Horror and Death at the Movies
121
(20)
Conclusion: The Dialectics of Interpretation
141
(22)
Notes
163
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Index
179
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