Steven Spielberg and philosophy : we're gonna need a bigger book /
Without question, few directors have had such a powerful influence on the film industry and the moviegoing public as Steven Spielberg. Often referred to as the most successful American filmmaker of all time, Spielberg has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director six times, winning twic...
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Lexington, Ky. :
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©2008.
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| Series: | Philosophy of popular culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Philosophy, the filmmaker, and the human condition
- The "big-little" film and philosophy : two takes on Spielbergian innocence / Gary Arms and Thomas Riley
- The recovery of childhood and the search for the absent father / Michel Le Gall and Charles Taliaferro
- Levinasian ethics of alterity : the face of the other in Spielberg's cinematic language / John W. Wright
- The paradox of fictional belief and its moral implications in Jaws / Christopher R. Trogan and Dean A. Kowalski
- A.I. : Artificial Intelligence and the tragic sense of life / Timothy Dunn
- Values, virtue, and justice
- What is wrong with cloning a dinosaur? : Jurassic Park and nature as a source of moral authority / James H. Spence
- Is Oskar Schindler a good man? / Roger P. Ebertz
- A Spielbergian ethics of the family in Saving Private Ryan and The Color Purple / Robert R. Clewis
- Human rights, human nature, and Amistad / David Baggett and Mark W. Foreman
- Terrorism, counterterrorism, and "The story of what happens next" in Munich / Joseph J. Foy
- Realism, mind and metaphysics
- Spielberg and cinematic realism / Keith Dromm
- A.I. : Artificial Intelligence : artistic indulgence or advanced inquiry? / V. Alan White
- Minority Report, Molinism, and the viability of Precrime / Dean A. Kowalski
- Appendix : Discussing five Spielberg films.