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Title
Searching for wisdom in movies : from the Book of Job to sublime conversations / Richard Gilmore.
ISBN
9783319398952 (electronic bk.)
3319398954 (electronic bk.)
9783319398945
3319398946
Published
Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages)
Call Number
PN1995
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4301
Summary
In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and analyzes the relationship between philosophy and film. This book argues that philosophy and film can and should be used for the amelioration of life's difficulties and the promotion of life's boons. Gilmore identifies how philosophy and film complement and enrich one another and explores their relationship by connecting classic wisdom texts to significant movies. For example, the volume analyzes the Coen brothers' films The Big Lebowski and A Serious Man in light of The Book of Job. Gilmore considers the ancient idea of philosophy as "spiritual exercise" and a way of life. The volume concludes by examining what the author labels "sublime conversations" as the highest expression of philosophy. The book identifies and dissects these conversations in movies directed by the likes of Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, Jean-Luc Godard, and Ingmar Bergman, among others.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction. The Search for Wisdom
Part I. The Coens on Comedy and Tragedy
1. The Coens' Tragic Comedy: The Big Lebowski
2. The Coens' Comic Tragedy: A Serious Man
Part II. Philosophy and Film as Spiritual Exercises
3. Maximus as Stoic Warrior in Gladiator
4. Jack Crabb as Divagating Skeptic in Little Big Man
5. The Strange Attraction of the Epicurean Swerve in My Dinner with André
Part III. Sublime Conversations
6. Sublime Conversations in Movies
7. Transcendental Conversations in Movies
Part IV. Conclusion
8.
