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This book explores the idea of nihilism, emphasized by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, through its appearance in modern popular culture. The author defines and reflects upon nihilism, then explores its manifestation in films and television shows.
Among the subjects examined are the award-winning television series The Sopranos and the film noir genre that preceded and influenced it. Films probed include Orson Welles's masterpiece Citizen Kane, the films of Stanley Kubrick, Neil Jordan's controversial The Crying Game and Richard Linklater's unconventional Waking Life.
Finally, the author considers nihilism in terms of the decay of traditional values in the genre of westerns, mostly through works of filmmaker John Ford. In the concluding chapter the author broadens the lessons gleaned from these studies, maintaining that the situated and embodied nature of human life must be understood and appreciated before people can overcome the life-negating effects of nihilism.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: When Nothing Matters
1. Nietzsche, Nihilism, and Existentialism
2. The Nihilistic Vision of Film Noir and The Sopranos
3. "The On-Going Wow": Tuning In to Dreams of Waking Life
4. The Ambiguity of Horizons: On the Nihilism and Perspectivism of Citizen Kane
5. Through the Glass Wall: Welcoming the Stranger inNeil Jordan's The Crying Game
6. When the Legends Die: John Ford and the Fading of Traditions and Heroes
7. Kubrick's Nihilistic Clockwork
8. Nihilism as Detached Existence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
