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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments: You Mean So Much to Us
Introduction: So . . . Why “The Meaning of Life”?
Take One: Are You For Real?
1. Deceit and Doubt: The Search For Truth in The Truman Show and Descartes’s Meditations
2. Our Place in the Cosmos: Faith and Belief in Contact
3. The On-Going Wow: Waking Life and The Waltz Between Detachment and Immersion
Take Two: Who Am I?
4. I Am Jack’s Wasted Life: Fight Club and Personal Identity
5. It’s my Heeeeaaaad!: Sex and Death in Being John Malkovich
6. Popping It In: Gender Identity in Boys Don’t Cry
7. We All Need Mirrors to Remind Us Who We Are: Inherited Meaning and Inherited Selves in Memento
Take Three: Am I Alone?
8. The Indifferent Universe: Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors
9. Rats In God’s Laboratory: Shadowlands and The Problem of Evil
10. Flying Without a Map: Chasing Amy and The Quest For Satisfying Relationships
Take Four: What Do I Want Out of Life?
11. American Beauty: Look Closer
12. Life is Beautiful: The Lure of Evil and the Rebellion of Love
13. The Shawshank Redemption and The Hope For Escape
14. The Roar and the Rampage: A Tale of Revenge in Kill Bill Volumes I and II
Take Five: How Should I Live My Life?
15. Pleasantville, Aristotle, and the Meaning of Life
16. Of Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, and Living Like a Hero
17. So Tired of the Future: Freedom and Determinism in Minority Report
18. Grace, Fate, and Accident in Pulp Fiction
19. What Nietzsche Could Teach You: Eternal Recurrence in Groundhog Day
You Mean We Have to Say Something About Ourselves?
Index
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