Table of Contents
Introduction
James S. Spiegel
PART I. The Human Condition
- The Citizen Kane Mutiny: What Hollywood Knows and Will Never Admit About Life, Love, and Human Relationships
James F. Sennett - Story-Shaped Lives in Big Fish
Kelly James Clark - Defining Love Through the Eye of the Lens: Romance, Sex, and the Human Condition in Pretty Woman, Legends of the Fall and The Bridges of MadisonCounty
Greg Jesson
PART II. Mind and Knowledge
- Escaping Into Reality: What We Can Learn From The Truman Show About the Knowledge Enterprise
R. Douglas Geivett - The Sleeper Awakes: Gnosis and Authenticity in The Matrix
David P. Hunt - Consciousness, Memory, and Identity: The Nature and Identity of Persons in Three Films by Charlie Kaufman
Gregory E. Ganssle - What Would Have Been and What Could Be: Counterfactuals in It’s a Wonderful Life and Run Lola Run
James S. Spiegel
Part III. The Moral Life
- Liberation through Sensuality: A Moral Vision for an Age of Feeling
Dallas Willard - From a Society of Fear to a Community of Trust: Moving Beyond Bowling for Columbine
Sara L. H. Shady - Vengeance, Forgiveness and Redemption in Mystic River
Caroline J. Simon - Moral Monsters: Horror’s Indispensable Need for Moral Good and Evil
Ronald K. Tacelli
Part IV. Faith and Religion
- Faith and Science in Contact and 2001: A Space Odyssey
Brendan Sweetman - Bottled Water from the Fragrant Harbor: The Diluted Spiritual Elements of Hong Kong Films
Winfried Corduan - Rattle & Film: U2, Nietzsche and Salvation in the Blues
Douglas K. Blount
Film Summaries
Index
