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Philosophical cinema or cinematic philosophy? This book attempts to set the questions about the relationship among existence, reality and identity based on some famous and some not-so-famous movies of American cinema from the last thirty years (with one exception). How is it that several realities exist simultaneously? How is it that many people share the same identity? How does a dream affect our perception of what we believe is reality? What happens with identity when we fail to maintain our sanity? How can we know that our existence is not the program of a gigantic computer? I shall let you…mehr

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Philosophical cinema or cinematic philosophy? This book attempts to set the questions about the relationship among existence, reality and identity based on some famous and some not-so-famous movies of American cinema from the last thirty years (with one exception). How is it that several realities exist simultaneously? How is it that many people share the same identity? How does a dream affect our perception of what we believe is reality? What happens with identity when we fail to maintain our sanity? How can we know that our existence is not the program of a gigantic computer? I shall let you contemplate these questions, but I need to be excused. The fava beans and the Chianti are served and I am having an old friend for dinner...
Autorenporträt
Lampros I. Papagiannis is Assistant Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou, China, where he teaches Modern Greek language, Greek Literature, History, Mythology, European Literature and European Studies. He is also Visiting Fellow at the University of Athens and the University of Thrace in Greece. This is his fourth book.