Hitchcock and Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitchcock and Philosophy write by David Baggett. This book was released on 2011-09-30. Hitchcock and Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; “innocent” birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching — these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives. But what makes them so? What deeper forces are at work in Hitchcock’s films that so captivate his fans? This collection of articles in the series that’s explored such pop-culture phenomena as Seinfeld and The Simpsons examines those forces with fresh eyes. These essays demonstrate a fascinating range of topics: Sabotage’s lessons about the morality of terrorism and counter-terrorism; Rope’s debatable Nietzschean underpinnings; Strangers on a Train’s definition of morality. Some of the essays look at more overarching questions, such as why Hitchcock relies so heavily on the Freudian unconscious. In all, the book features 18 philosophers paying a special homage to the legendary auteur in a way that’s accessible even to casual fans.
The Philosophical Hitchcock
The Philosophical Hitchcock - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophical Hitchcock write by Robert B. Pippin. This book was released on 2017-12-21. The Philosophical Hitchcock available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is also much more. Even as he provides detailed readings of each scene in the film, and its story of obsession and fantasy, Pippin reflects more broadly on the modern world depicted in Hitchcock’s films. Hitchcock’s characters, Pippin shows us, repeatedly face problems and dangers rooted in our general failure to understand others—or even ourselves—very well, or to make effective use of what little we do understand. Vertigo, with its impersonations, deceptions, and fantasies, embodies a general, common struggle for mutual understanding in the late modern social world of ever more complex dependencies. By treating this problem through a filmed fictional narrative, rather than discursively, Pippin argues, Hitchcock is able to help us see the systematic and deep mutual misunderstanding and self-deceit that we are subject to when we try to establish the knowledge necessary for love, trust, and commitment, and what it might be to live in such a state of unknowingness. A bold, brilliant exploration of one of the most admired works of cinema, The Philosophical Hitchcock will lead philosophers and cinephiles alike to a new appreciation of Vertigo and its meanings.
Hitchcock as Philosopher
Hitchcock as Philosopher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitchcock as Philosopher write by Robert J. Yanal. This book was released on 2005-06-16. Hitchcock as Philosopher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The work discusses 12 Hitchcock films and reads them as raising and putting forth a position on three problem areas of epistemology: deception, knowledge of mind, and problematic knowledge of the external world. Introductions to these philosophical concepts are given, as well as summaries to the films analyzed"--Provided by publisher.
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science write by Christopher Hitchcock. This book was released on 2004-01-09. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science contains sixteen original essays by leading authors in the philosophy of science, each one defending the affirmative or negative answer to one of eight specific questions, including: Are there laws of social science? Are causes physically connected to their effects? Is the mind a system of modules shaped by natural selection? Brings together fresh debates on eight of the most controversial issues in the philosophy of science. Questions addressed include: “Are there laws of social science?”; “Are causes physically connected to their effects?”; “Is the mind a system of modules shaped by natural selection?” Each question is treated by a pair of opposing essays written by eminent scholars, and especially commissioned for the volume. Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, and paves the way for further discussion. Will serve as an accessible introduction to the major topics in contemporary philosophy of science, whilst also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers.
Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations
Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations write by Paul Elliott. This book was released on 2011-08-30. Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When we talk of 'seeing' a film, we do not refer to a purely visual experience. Rather, to understand what we see on screen, we rely as much on non-visual senses as we do on sight. This new book rethinks the body in the cinema seat, charting the emergence of embodied film theory and drawing on developments in philosophy, neuroscience, body politics and film theory. Through the prism of Alfred Hitchcock's films, we explore how our bodies and sensual memory enable us to quite literally 'flesh out' what we see on screen: the trope of nausea in "Frenzy", pollution and smell in "Shadow of a Doubt", physical sound reception in the "Psycho" shower scene and the importance of corporeality and closeness in "Rear Window". We see how the body's sensations have a vital place in cinematic reception and the study of film.
