Steven Spielberg and philosophy : we're gonna need a bigger book / edited by Dean A. Kowalski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kowalski, Dean A.

Series:

Philosophy of popular culture

The philosophy of popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spielberg, Steven, 1946---Criticism and interpretation.

Spielberg, Steven.

Spielberg, Steven, 1946-.

Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.

Motion pictures.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2008]

Contents:

pt. 1. 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

pt. 2. 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

pt. 3. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813125278

9780813125275

OCLC:

212844704