Doing philosophy at the movies

Introduction: Wittgenstein at the movies

John Ford's The searchers as an allegory of the philosophical search

A the usual suspects moment in Vertigo: the epistemology of identity

The American sublime in Fargo

Visions of meaning: seeing and non-seeing in Crimes and misdemeanors

Oedipus techs: time travel as redemption in The terminator and 12 monkeys

Into the toilet: some classical aesthetic themes raised by a scene in Trainspotting

Horror and death at the movies

Conclusion: the dialectics of interpretation.