Blade Runner 2049 on What Makes Us Human
Roughly 8 years after writing my review of Blade Runner 2049, I chose to revisit the film. Upon my second
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A Philosophical Approach to Cinema
Essay
What Pixar’s Inside Out Teaches Us About Plato’s Theory of the Soul
I had not expected a Pixar film to illuminate the nature of the human soul more vividly than a standard
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Book Review: The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning director and legendary filmmaker noted for his profound, character-driven stories and fascinating explorations of
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Space and Isolation in Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher (2001) is a film directed by Michael Haneke, based on the 1983 novel of the same name
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Documenting Subjectivity in Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey was one of the most widely-publicized crimes of the late 20th Century. Despite all of
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Beyond the Door Trilogy: One Imitation, One Bore, and One Trainwreck
If you’ve spent time watching bad 70s and 80s horror, then you’ve likely come across the Beyond the Door trilogy.
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The Architecture of Gazing in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window
In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954), a wheelchair-bound photographer observes the surrounding neighborhood through the rear window of his apartment.
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Female Representation in Films: An Analysis of Hollywood Superheroes
In her article for the New York Times, Laurie Frankel uses the example of her six-year-old child (born male) wearing
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The Gettier Cases and the Revision of Knowledge
To many philosophers, it has been the long-standing view that knowledge is defined as a justified, true belief. But does
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The Case for Animal Rights: A Defense of Tom Regan
The animal rights movement has gained a much larger following since the advent of the Internet. American philosopher Tom Regan
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Arrival (2016): Will We Understand Aliens When (If) They Arrive?
How many civilizations are there in our galaxy? According to the Drake equation, written in 1961 by American astrophysicist Frank
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Spinoza Quotes and Arguments On Substance
Argument In Part I, Proposition 13 of Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics, Depicted in Geometrical Order, Spinoza quotes the following argument to
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A Defense of Mill and the Principle of Utility
John Stuart Mill illustrates the Principle of Utility as a guide for individual action in which morality is determined by
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On Sartre’s Existentialism and the Meaning of Human Existence
In Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay, Existentialism is a Humanism, he seems to argue against any inherent meaning in human existence. He
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Toto the Hero, the Antithesis to Classical Hollywood
European art cinema, above all else, seeks to break free of the conventions of Classical Hollywood filmmaking. By creating a
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John Carpenter’s They Live and the Dilemma of Retrospective Film Critique
Now that the world is far removed from the 1980’s and its many idiosyncrasies, it has become increasingly difficult to
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Case Study: Elements of Horror in Take Me to the River
Genre is, as it relates to filmmaking, an unspoken agreement between filmmaker and viewer. While genres are used to categorize
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