{"product_id":"skepticism-films-knowing-and-doubting-the-world-in-contemporary-cinema-9781501310973","title":"Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Philipp Schmerheim\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCinema has always displayed an affinity to characters with distorted or even hallucinatory relations to reality. With films such as \u003ci\u003eThe Truman Show\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMatrix \u003c\/i\u003efilms or \u003ci\u003eInception\u003c\/i\u003e, contemporary filmmakers add another layer to this canon of film characters: unwitting ordinary victims of deception for whom the skepticist fear that the world is not real but a simulation, fake environment or a dream has become true. These are 'skepticism films': dramatized, fictional configurations of the thought experiments which are part and parcel of philosophical reflection on knowledge and doubt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e introduces skepticism films as updated configurations of skepticist thought experiments which exemplify the pervasiveness of philosophical ideas in popular culture. Philipp Schmerheim defends a pluralistic film-philosophical position according to which films can be, but need not be, expressions of philosophical thought in their own right. It critically investigates the influence of ideas of skepticism on film-philosophical theories and develops a typology of skepticism films by analyzing \u003ci\u003eThe Truman Show, Inception, The Matrix, Vanilla Sky, The Thirteenth Floor, Moon\u003c\/i\u003e and other contemporary skepticism films. With its focus on skepticism as one of the most significant philosophical problems, \u003ci\u003eSkepticism Films\u003c\/i\u003e provides a better understanding of the dynamic interplay between film, theories of film and philosophy.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45086367219863,"sku":"9781501310973","price":17753.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501310973.webp?v=1767142948","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/skepticism-films-knowing-and-doubting-the-world-in-contemporary-cinema-9781501310973","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}