Skepticism films : knowing and doubting the world in contemporary cinema /: knowing and doubting the world in contemporary cinema. (2015 copyright 2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Philipp Schmerheim.
• Authors: Schmerheim, Philipp
• Contents: List of figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Skepticism Films. A Certain Tendency in Contemporary Cinema Part I: Thinking Through Cinema 2. Films as Configurations of Philosophical Thought 3. Remediating Philosophy, or: The Media of Philosophical Thought Part II: Skepticism in Film Philosophy 4. Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism: Knowledge, Acknowledgement, and Trust 5. A Moving Image of Skepticism? Philosophy's Acknowledgement of Film 6. A Cinema for Believers. Trust, Belief, and the Expulsion from the Paradise of Childhood Part III: Skepticism Films 7. Varieties of Skepticism Films 8. Tools for Philosophical Film Analysis 9. (Not) Knowing My World: External World Skepticism Films 10. Not Knowing My Self, or: Being One's Own Evil Deceiver 11. Coda. From Doubt to Acknowledgement, or: The Philosophical Significance of Skepticism Films revisited Bibliography and Filmography Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 791.4301; Philosophy: aesthetics; Skepticism in motion pictures; Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; PHILOSOPHY / General; SCIENCE / General; Philosophy -- General; Science -- General; Social Science -- Media Studies; Media studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501310980; 1501310984
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