Adapting philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and the matrix trilogy
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard?s Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position. Where previous work in the field has presented the trilogy as a simple?beginner?s guide? to philosophy, this study offers a new methodology for inter-relating philosophy and film texts, focusing on the conceptual role played by imagery in both types of text. This focus on the figurative enables a new-found appre…
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- Full title :Adapting philosophy : Jean Baudrillard and the matrix trilogy / Catherine Constable.
Summary
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard?s Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position. Where previous work in the field has presented the trilogy as a simple?beginner?s guide? to philosophy, this study offers a new methodology for inter-relating philosophy and film texts, focusing on the conceptual role played by imagery in both types of text. This focus on the figurative enables a new-found appreciation of the liveliness of philosophical writing and the multiple philosophical dimensions of Holl.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, Manchester University Press
- Place of Publication:Manchester, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 177 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781847792822, 1847792820
- oclc:ocn760716483
- LC Classification:PN1997.M395
- Dewey Decimal:791.4375
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Good example, bad philosophy -- Adapting philosophy/philosophy as adaptation -- Mirrors and screens -- Codes -- Beyond nihilism.
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