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Popular Culture and Philosophy
Title Page
Dedication
Previews and Opening Credits
I - The Mystery of Everyday Life
Chapter 1 - Sabotage: Chaos Unleashed and the Impossibility of Utopia
Sabotage
Thing with a Mustache
Conspiring in a Bird Shop
Conspiring in a Movie Theater
Chaos in a Cartoon
Violence Against Utopia
Chapter 2 - Shadow of a Doubt: Secrets, Lies, and the Search for the Truth
Everybody in the World Ain’t Honest
Family Ties
This Thing Called Knowing
Belief and Justification
Truth
I Kant Tell a Lie
Full Disclosure
A Feminist Angle
Plato’s Cave Again
Chapter 3 - Rope: Nietzsche and the Art of Murder
The Original Junior Mint
Cocktail Party Banter
What Nietzsche Can Teach Ya
Having the Form of Nietzsche
Appearances Can Be Misleading
Rupert’s Response and Responsibility
II - Horrors Without End
Chapter 4 - Psycho: Horror, Hitchcock, and the Problem of Evil
The Why Question: Philosophy and the Problem of Evil
Hitchcock and Horrendous Evils
Horrendous Evils in Psycho
Aesthetics of the Horrendous
Horrendous Evils in Philosophy
Horror and the Free Will Defense
Horror and Soul-Making Theodicies
Horror and the Principle of Honesty
A Proper Answer?
Chapter 5 - The Birds: Plato and Romantic Love
Love’s Turbulent Flight
Socrates Flips Romantic Love the Bird
Another Fox in Socrates’s Henhouse
Caw of the Wild: The Birds and Love
The Wind Beneath Love’s Wings
To Nest or Not to Nest
Chapter 6 - Featherless Bipeds: The Concept of Humanity in The Birds
Highbrows, Owls, Eggheads, and Ostriches
A Little Birdie Told Me
Freeeeebird!!!!!
Birds of a Feather Flock Together
“Your Heavenly Father Feeds Them”
Chapter 7 - Hitchcock’s Existentialism: Anguish, Despair, and Redemption in Breakdown
Strike First and Ask Questions Later
I-Thou versus I-It
Angst and Authenticity
Bad Faith
III - The Reeling Mind
Chapter 8 - Vertigo and the Pathologies of Romantic Love
Aristotle, Philosophy, and Drama
Love and Fantasy
Falling in Love
Knots
Chapter 9 - Vertigo: Scientific Method, Obsession, and Human Minds
Philosophers and Zombies
The Hardheaded Scot
Vertigo and the Vienna Circle
Scottie as Psychotherapist
Finding the Key
Scottie’s Last Therapy Session
Scottie’s Tragic Flaw in Understanding Human Minds
Vertigo and Epistemological Vertigo
Chapter 10 - On Being Mr. Kaplan: Personal Identity in North by Northwest
What Makes Us Who We Are?
License and Registration, Please
The Persistence of Memory (or Lack Thereof)
The Importance of Having Toothaches
Identities, Selves, and Others
Chapter 11 - Ethics or Film Theory? The Real McGuffin in North by Northwest
Zealous Patriotism versus Ethical Particularism
The Unfortunate Mr. Thornhill
How Cold Is the Cold Warrior?
The Professor as Director
Is Love Rash as Well as Blind?
Turning the Tables
IV - Hitchcock’s Ethical Dilemmas
Chapter 12 - Democracy Adrift in Lifeboat
The Good, the Bad, and the Nazi
Turning Democracy on Its Head
The Challenge to Ethical Pluralism
A Voyage Down the Hierarchy of Needs
E Pluribus Unum?
Chapter 13 - Why Be Moral? Amorality and Psychopathy in Strangers on a Train
Family Plot
The Wrong Man
The “Notorious” Question . . .
. . . And Three Answers
Morality Is Rational
Morality Pays
Morality Is Psychologically Healthy
Psycho’d
Why Be Moral?
Chapter 14 - Rear Window: Hitchcock’s Allegory of the Cave
Judging Art: Plato versus Aristotle
Form and Content Unified: Rear Window as a Film about Film
The Unifying and Self-Referential Role of Music in Rear Window
Film and Emancipation
Is Film Watching Good for the Soul and Society?
Judgment, Voyeurism, and Happiness
Interpreting Film and Experience
Judgment and Interpretation
The Moral of Hitchcock’s Allegory
Curtain Down
Chapter 15 - Rear Window: Looking at Things Ethically
Here’s Looking at You
A Race of Peeping Toms
Did You Hate Him Because He Liked You?
Doing Things in Private
V - What’s It All About, Alfred?
Chapter 16 - Plot Twists and Surprises: Why Are Some Things Improbable?
The Science of Frank Fry’s Jacket
Statistics for Umbrellas?
Show Me the Evidence!
Jimmy Stewart: Amateur Sleuth or Philosophical Genius?
Lessons to Take Away
Chapter 17 - The Hitchcock Cameo: Aesthetic Considerations
Enter a Silhouette in Profile (Stage Left)
The Joke
Origins and Development
Where’s Alfred?
The Real Deal
Da-dum, Da-da-da-da Dum-da-dum
Chapter 18 - Knowing When to Be Afraid: Rationality and Suspense
Women in Love and in Danger
Spellbound: Amor Vincit Evidentia (Love Conquers Evidence)
Suspicion: What’s Love Got to Do With It? (the Evidence, that Is)
The Wrong Man: Stand By Your Man, But “They” Will Get You Anyway
Questioning Everything: The Birds
Chapter 19 - Shadow of a Doubt and Marnie: Entries into a Mind
Descartes and Wittgenstein on Mind
Enter Hitchcock
Shadow of a Doubt: Not Good to Find Out Too Much
Marnie: An Enigma to Herself
Cast and Crew
Index
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Copyright Page
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