Format:
IX, 300 S.
ISBN:
9781498511773
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction -- Responsibility, remembering, revision. "Good badmen": reading race in Black rain, American gangster, and Body of lies / Nancy Kang -- A double-edged sword: honor in The duellists / James Edwin Mahon -- The trans-religious ethics of Kingdom of Heaven / Michael Garcia -- Levinasian responsibility in Someone to watch over me, Black rain, and White squall / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Re-membering Vietnam in Somalia: Black Hawk down and ethical militarism in American historical memory / David Zietsma -- 1492 and the ethics of remembering / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Real lives, alienated lives, ideal lives. What's wrong with building replicants? artificial intelligence in Blade runner, Alien, and Prometheus / Greg Littmann -- A villainous appetite: erôs, madness, and the food analogy in Hannibal and Legend / Antonio Sanna -- Detecting puzzles and patterns in Numbers: no one escapes "Scott Free" / Janice Shaw -- Celebrating historical accuracy in The duellists / Carl Sobocinski -- Conceptions of happiness in Matchstick men and A good year / Basileios Kroustallis -- Techno-totalitarianism in Alien / Dan Dinello -- Gender, identity, selfhood. Through space, over a cliff, and into a trench: The shifting. Feminist ideologies of Alien, Thelma & Louise, and G.I. Jane / Aviva Dove-Viebahn -- Why doesn't Hannibal kill Clarice? the philosophy of a monstrous romantic in Hannibal / Matthew Freeman -- In the guise of character: costumes, narrative, and the reality of artifice in Thelma & Louise / Lorna Piatti-Farnell -- Becoming authentic in Matchstick men through the ultimate con / Elizabeth Abele -- Virginity in Alien: the essence of Ripley's survival / Sydney Palmer -- Gladiator, gender, and marriage in Heaven: a Christian exploration / Adam Barkman
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Scott, Ridley 1937-
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Film
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