Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy

Featuring significant revisions and updates, Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd Edition uses popular movies as a highly accessible framework for introducing key philosophical concepts

• Explores 28 films with 18 new to this edition, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hotel Rwanda, V for Vendetta, and Memento
• Discusses numerous philosophical issues not covered in the first edition, including a new chapter covering issues of personal identity, the meaningfulness of life and death, and existentialism
• Offers a rich pedagogical framework comprised of key classic readings, chapter learning outcomes, jargon-free argument analysis, critical thinking and trivia questions, a glossary of terms, and textboxes with notes on the movies discussed
• Revised to be even more accessible to beginning philosophers

Author: Dean A. Kowalski
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 08/24/2015
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781118585603

About the Author
Dean A. Kowalski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. He is the author of Classic Questions and Contemporary Film (2005) and Moral Theory at the Movies (2012). He is the editor of Steven Spielberg and Philosophy (2008), The Philosophy of The X-Files (2009), and The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy (Wiley, 2012), and the coeditor of The Philosophy of Joss Whedon (2011).