Blade Runner (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Coplan, Amy; Davies, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores and addresses Blade Runner from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful introduction, seven specially commissioned chapters examine the key questions concerning emotions, reason and personhood. Essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136231452
• Artikelnr.: 42832159

Autorenporträt

Amy Coplan is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton, USA. She is the co-editor, with Peter Goldie, of Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (2011). David Davies is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of Art as Performance (2004), Aesthetics and Literature (2007), and Philosophy of the Performing Arts (2011), and editor of The Thin Red Line (Routledge, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Amy Coplan and David Davies 2. Elegy in LA: Blade Runner,
empathy, and death Berys Gaut 3. 'More human than human': Blade Runner and
being-toward-death Peter Atterton 4. Replicant love: Blade Runner
Voight-Kampffed C. D. C. Reeve 5. Do humans dream of emotional machines?
Colin Allen 6. Zhora through the looking-glass: notes on an esper analysis
of Leon's photograph Stephen Mulhall 7. In the mood for thought: mood and
meaning in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner Amy Coplan 8. Blade Runner and the
cognitive values of cinema David Davies. Index