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Spoiler alert! : (it's a book about the philosophy of spoilers) / Richard Greene.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.S6 G7 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greene, Richard, 1961 September 2-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Television programs--Social aspects.
- Television programs.
- Motion pictures--History.
- History.
- Television programs--History.
- Secrecy--Social aspects.
- Secrecy.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Open Court, 2019.
- Contents:
- Part I The Metaphysics of Spoilers p. 1
- 1 A Brief History of Spoilers p. 3
- 2 What Are Spoilers? p. 15
- 3 Things that Can Never Be Spoiled p. 31
- 4 What Else Can Be Spoiled? p. 45
- 5 Vagueness and Spoilers p. 57
- Part II The Ethics of Spoilers p. 69
- 6 Is It Bad to Spoil? p. 71
- 7 The Badness of Spoiling p. 83
- 8 When Is It Wrong to Spoil? p. 99
- 9 When You Should Spoil p. 113
- 10 The Timing of Spoilers p. 125
- 11 The Ethics of Spoiler Alerts p. 141
- Part III The Pragmatics of Spoilers p. 153
- 12 Paradoxes of Spoiling p. 155
- 13 Spoiling Remakes and Some Other Tricky Cases p. 165
- 14 Are Our Reactions to Spoilers Justified? p. 177
- 15 Culture, Relativism, and Spoilers p. 187
- 16 What to Do When You Encounter Someone Who Spoils p. 199.
- ISBN:
- 0812694694
- 9780812694697
- OCLC:
- 1049788029
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