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Contents Preface 1 1. Did You Ever Think You Knew Something, but Didn't? 5 Movie 1: Twelve Angry Men 00 Movie 2: The Return of Martin Guerre 00 Movie 3: House of Games 00 Movie 4: Rashomon 00 2. The Greatest Happiness Principle 00 Movie 5: Abandon Ship 00 Movie 6: The Field 00 3. Doing One's Duty 00 Movie 7: High Noon 00 Movie 8: The Road Home 00 4. Anxiety and Inauthenticity 00 Movie 9: Hannah and Her Sisters 00 Movie 10: My Dinner with Andre 00 Movie 11: About Schmidt 00 5. Fate and Determinism 00 Movie 12: Tess 00 Movie 13: Sliding Doors 00 6. Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Tammy Faye and Miscellaneous Religious Issues 00 Movie 14: The Last Temptation of Christ 00 Movie 15: The Message 00 Movie 16: Little Buddha 00 Movie 17: The Apostle 00 Movie 18: Breaking the Waves 00 Movie 19: The Eyes of Tammy Faye 00 Movie 20: The Decalogue 00 7. The Journey Upward 00 Movie 21: Billy Elliot 00 Movie 22: Girlfight 00 Movie 23: The Truman Show 00 Movie 24: The Matrix 00 Movie 25: The Color Purple 00 8. Civil Disobedience 000 Movie 26: Gattaca 00 Movie 27: Gandhi 00 9. Death 000 Movie 28: Shadowlands 00 Movie 29: Under the Sand 00 Movie 30: Fearless 00 Movie 31: Whose Life Is It, Anyway? 00 Movie 32: Dead Man Walking 00 Movie 33: Resurrection 00 Movie 34: The Seventh Seal 00 10. War 000 Movie 35: The Red Badge of Courage 00 Movie 36: Paths of Glory 00 Movie 37: Saving Private Ryan 00 Movie 38: Full Metal Jacket 00 Movie 39: No Man's Land 00 11. Racism 000 Movie 40: The Birth of a Nation 00 Movie 41: Mississippi Burning 00 Movie 42: American History X 00 Movie 43: Do the Right Thing 00 Movie 44: The Long Walk Home 00 Movie 45: Imitation of Life 00 12. The Holocaust 000 Movie 46: Shoah 00 Movie 47: The Pianist 00 Movie 48: Mr. Death 00 Movie 49: Life Is Beautiful 00 13. Sexism and Women's Issues 000 Movie 50: In the Company of Men 00 Movie 51: Thelma and Louise 00 Movie 52: Ladybird, Ladybird 00 Movie 53: If These Walls Could Talk-Part I 00 Movie 54: Real Women Have Curves 00 Movie 55: Artemisia 00 Movie 56: Whale Rider 00 Movie 57: Daughters of the Dust 00 14. Gay Rights 000 Movie 58: Chasing Amy 00 Movie 59: If These Walls Could Talk-Part II 00 Movie 60: Philadelphia 00 Movie 61: The Celluloid Closet 00 15. Pornography 000 Movie 62: The People vs. Larry Flynt 00 Movie 63: The Pornographer 00 16. Love, Love, Love 000 Movie 64: When Harry Met Sally 00 Movie 65: East-West 00 Movie 66: The Lover 00 Movie 67: The Bridges of Madison County 00 Movie 68: Sidewalks of New York 00 Movie 69: Indecent Proposal 00 Movie 70: Babette's Feast 00 Movie 71: Pop and Me 00 17. Puzzlers 000 Movie 72: The Usual Suspects 00 Movie 73: Memento 00 Movie 74: Mulholland Drive 00 18. The Love of Movies 000 Movie 75: Cinema Paradiso 00 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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