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[FMH]Contents Acknowledgments: You Mean So Much to Us 000 Introduction: So . . . Why "The Meaning of Life"? 000 Take One: Are You For Real? 000 THE TRUMAN SHOW 1. Deceit and Doubt: The Search For Truth in The Truman Show and Descartes's Meditations KIMBERLY A. BLESSING 000 CONTACT 2. Our Place in the Cosmos: Faith and Belief in Contact HEATHER KEITH AND STEVE FESMIRE 000 WAKING LIFE 3. The On-Going Wow: Waking Life and The Waltz Between Detachment and Immersion KEVIN STOEHR 000 Take Two: Who Am I? 000 FIGHT CLUB 4. I Am Jack's Wasted Life: Fight Club and Personal Identity JOHN ZAVODNY 000 BEING JOHN MALKOVICH 5. It's my Heeeeaaaad!: Sex and Death in Being John Malkovich WALTER OTT 000 BOYS DON'T CRY 6. Popping It In: Gender Identity in Boys Don't Cry REBECCA HANRAHAN 000 MEMENTO 7. We All Need Mirrors to Remind Us Who We Are: Inherited Meaning and Inherited Selves in Memento MICHAEL BAUR 000 Take Three: Am I Alone? 000 CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS 8. The Indifferent Universe: Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors MARK T. CONARD 000 SHADOWLANDS 9. Rats In God's Laboratory: Shadowlands and The Problem of Evil DAVID BAGGETT 000 CHASING AMY 10. Flying Without a Map: Chasing Amy and The Quest For Satisfying Relationships JERRY WALLS 000 Take Four: What Do I Want Out of Life? 000 AMERICAN BEAUTY 11. American Beauty: Look Closer GEORGE HOLE 000 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 12. Life is Beautiful: The Lure of Evil and the Rebellion of Love ANTHONY SCIGLITANO 000 THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION 13. The Shawshank Redemption and The Hope For Escape WILLIAM YOUNG 000 KILL BILL, VOLUMES 1 AND 2 14. The Roar and the Rampage: A Tale of Revenge in Kill Bill Volumes I and II SHAI BIDERMAN 000 Take Five: How Should I Live My Life? 000 PLEASANTVILLE 15. Pleasantville, Aristotle, and the Meaning of Life ERIC REITAN 000 SPIDERMAN AND SPIDERMAN II 16. Of Spiderman, Spiderman II, and Living Like a Hero JONATHAN SANDFORD 000 MINORITY REPORT 17. So Tired of the Future: Freedom and Determinism in Minority Report SHAI BIDERMAN AND NIR EISIKOVITS 000 PULP FICTION 18. Grace, Fate, and Accident in Pulp Fiction MICHAEL SILBERSTEIN 000 GROUNDHOG DAY 19. What Nietzsche Could Teach You: Eternal Recurrence in Groundhog Day JAMES SPENCE 000 You Mean We Have to Say Something About Ourselves? 000 Index 000
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.