Minerva's Night Out : Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures.

Intro -- Minerva's Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Philosophy and the Popular Arts -- Notes -- Section I The Philosophy of Mass Art -- 1 The Ontology of Mass Art -- I. The definition of mass art -- II. The ontology of mass art -- III. Objection #1: All art is multiple -- IV. Objection #2: Mass art is irrelevant -- Notes -- 2 Modernity and the Plasticity of Perception -- Notes -- 3 The Ties that Bind: Characters, the Emotions, and Popular Fictions -- The issues -- Identification -- Simulation -- Sympathy -- Mirror reflexes -- Summary -- Notes -- 4 Character, Social Information, and the Challenge of Psychology -- I. Introduction -- II. Aristotle, poetry, and character -- III. Social psychological skepticism about character -- IV. A defense of a modified version of the common view -- V. The Big Country -- VI. Summary -- Notes -- Section II The Philosophy of Motion Pictures -- 5 Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Sympathy -- I. Introduction -- II. Emotions and movies -- III. The moral emotions and the audience's response to movie characters, actions, events, and scenes -- IV. Sympathy/antipathy, morality, and the movies -- V. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 6 The Problem with Movie Stars -- Introduction -- The problem -- Film, photography, and allusion -- The movie star as allusion -- Summary -- Notes -- 7 Cinematic Narrative -- 8 Cinematic Narration -- 9 Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film -- Notes -- References -- Section III Philosophy and Popular Film -- 10 Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset Boulevard -- Introduction -- Sunset Boulevard -- How can Sunset Boulevard be philosophical? -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- 11 Vertigo and the Pathologies of Romantic Love -- Aristotle, philosophy, and drama -- Love and fantasy.

Falling in love -- Knots -- Notes -- 12 What Mr Creosote Knows about Laughter -- To laugh, or to scream? -- Who's afraid of Mr Creosote? -- Just desserts -- Notes -- 13 Memento and the Phenomenology of Comprehending Motion Picture Narration -- Introduction -- On the possibility of movie-made philosophy -- Memento and the Art Cinema -- Memento and narrative comprehension -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Section IV Philosophy and Popular TV -- 14 Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution to Narratology -- Introduction -- Tales of dread: some examples from The Twilight Zone -- The nature and function of Tales of Dread -- Horror fictions and tales of dread: a brief note -- Notes -- 15 Sympathy for Soprano -- Sympathy for the devil -- It was fascination -- Wish fulfillment -- Identification -- Paradox solved -- A remaining problem -- Notes -- 16 Consuming Passion: Sex and the City -- I. Introduction -- II. Consumerism -- III. Ethics and the evils of consumerism -- IV. Consumerism and the mass media -- V. Sex and the City -- VI. "A vogue idea" -- VII. Lighten up -- VIII. Summary -- Notes -- Section V Philosophy on Broadway -- 17 Art and Friendship -- Notes -- 18 Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, or The Justification of Literature -- Notes -- Section VI Philosophy across Popular Culture -- 19 The Fear of Fear Itself: The Philosophy of Halloween -- Halloween: the festival of the wandering undead -- The paradox of halloween -- A psychoanalytic solution -- The meta-fear of fear -- 20 The Grotesque Today: Preliminary Notes toward a Taxonomy -- Notes -- 21 Andy Kaufman and the Philosophy of Interpretation -- I. Introduction -- II. Actual Intentionalism -- III. Hypothetical intentionalism -- IV. The case of Andy Kaufman -- V. Hypothetical intentionalism again: the second round -- VI . Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

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