Philosophy of TV Noir

Steven M. Sanders, emeritus professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State College, is the editor of The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film. Aeon J. Skoble, associate professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State College, is coeditor of The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer.

Given the centrality of television as an organ of popular culture, this book is profoundly important to understanding the legacy of film noir. - Chris Matthew Sciabarra, author of Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism

• Introduction: War Films and the Ineffability of WarWar and RepresentationWar Pictures: Digital Surveillance from Foreign Theater to Homeland Security FrontLenses into War: Digital Vérité in Iraq War FilmsBeyond Panopticism: The Biopolitical Labor of Surveillance and War in Contemporary FilmSeeing Soldiers, Seeing Persons: Wittgenstein, Film Theory, and Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder ArmsApocalypse Within: The War Epic as Crisis of Self-IdentityThe Violated Body: Affective Experience and Somatic Intensity in Zero Dark Thirty"All in War with Time": Medium as Meditation in Sherman's MarchThe Power of Memory and the Memory of Power: Wars and Graves in Westerns and JidaigekiThe Ubiquitous Absence of the Enemy in Contemporary Israeli War FilmsGeneral Patton and Private Ryan: The Conflicting Reality of War and Films about WarThe Work of Art in the Age of Embedded Journalism: Fiction versus Depiction in Zero Dark ThirtyVernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red LineWar and Its Fictional Recovery on Screen: Narrative Management of Death in The Big Red One and The Thin Red Line"Profoundly Unreconciled to Nature": Ecstatic Truth and the Humanistic Sublime in Werner Herzog's War Films