Stephen Mulhall

On Film

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Produktbeschreibung

This significantly expanded third edition adds new chapters on the fourth Mission: Impossible movie, Christopher Nolan's Inception, the Bourne Identity films, Ridley Scott's Prometheus, and JJ Abrams' Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness. Essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, film theory and cultural studies, and in the way philosophy can enrich our understanding of cinema.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781138796850
• ISBN-10: 1138796859
• Artikelnr.: 43678055

Autorenporträt

Stephen Mulhall is a Professor of Philosophy, and a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time (2005, 2013), The Conversation of Humanity (2007), and The Self and its Shadows (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Part 1
Introduction 1. Kane's Son, Cain's Daughter: Ridley Scott's Alien 2. Making
Babies: James Cameron's Aliens 3. Mourning Sickness: David Fincher's
Alien3 4. The Monster's Mother: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection
Part 2 5. Film as Philosophy: The Priority of the Particular 6. PreCrime,
Precognition and the Pre-Reflective Cogito: Steven Spielberg's Minority
Report Part 3 7. The Impersonation of Personality: Brian De Palma's
Mission: Impossible 8. The Burden of Sex: John Woo's Mission: Impossible II
9. An Accelerated Mutator: J.J. Abram's Mission: Impossible III Part 4 10.
The Legacy of Jason Bourne: Identity and the Sinfulness of Origins 11. The
Enterprise, the Botany Bay and the Kobyashi Maru: Rebooting Star Trek with
Khan's Wrath and Red Matter 12. The Disavowal of Animation: Brad Bird's
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol 13. Cinematic Repetition and How to
Avoid it: Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Index