24.209
Philosophy In Film and Other Media
Spring 2004
Topics
- Introduction
- Singer. Reality Transformed.
- Singer. “Imagination” and “Idealization.”
- James. Washington Square.
- Singer. “Consummation.”
- Shaw. Pygmalion. (Including the prose Epilogue.)
- Bédier. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult.
- James. The Turn of the Screw.
- Singer. “Alfred Hitchcock.”
- Joyce. “The Dead.”
- Singer. “The Meaning of Death” and “The Love of Life.”
- Discussion of Previous Readings and Screenings
Readings
- Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.
- The Lady Eve commentary
- Singer, Irving. “Imagination” and “Idealization.” In Feeling and Imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence . Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
- Singer, Irving. “Consummation.” In Feeling and Imagination .
- Bédier, Joseph. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
- Singer. “Alfred Hitchcock.” In Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchock, Welles, Renoir . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.
- Singer, Irving. “The Meaning of Death” and “The Love of Life.” In The Creation of Value . Meaning in Life Series, vol. I. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
- SES #: 12 · TOPICS/READINGS: Discussion of Previous Readings and Screenings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.