Movies with Meaning

Existentialism through Film

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by Daniel Shaw

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

philosophy

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 280 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4742-9930-5

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Book Presentation:
This book pairs close readings of some of the classic writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of films that reveal striking parallels to each of those texts, demonstrating their respective philosophies in action. Individual chapters include significant excerpts from the original texts being discussed and illustrated. Pairings cover Schopenhauer and Waking Life, Stirner and Hud, Kierkegaard and Winter Light, Nietzsche and The Fountainhead, Heidegger, Blade Runner and The Thin Red Line, Camus, Leaving Las Vegas and Missing, Sartre, Husbands and Wives, and Michael Collins, de Beauvoir and Revolutionary Road, and Foucault and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Movies with Meaning offers a clear and insightful examination of the relationships between existential philosophers and film, providing both digests of their most significant texts and cinematic illustrations of what each had in mind. For the first time in one place, this book analyses the implications for film of the perspectives of a wide array of the most significant existentialist thinkers. Organized chronologically, like most existentialism anthologies, this is an ideal textbook for an intermediate level existentialism course, or as a companion to a selection of primary texts.

About the Author:
Daniel Shaw is Professor of Philosophy at Lock Haven University, USA. He is the author of Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously (2008) and Morality and the Movies: Reading Ethics Through Film (Bloomsbury, 2012) and is editor of Film and Philosophy.

Press Reviews:
"In this engagingly written survey of existentialism, Shaw (communication and philosophy, Lock Haven Univ.) links central concepts from several key thinkers (Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir, and Foucault) with a dozen different films, in each case explaining how the film both illustrates and illuminates what the philosopher had in mind … Shaw’s writing is clear and his comments are insightful.
Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." - CHOICE

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