Bøger af Tom Bowers

What does The Godfather have to say about ethical consequentialism? How is The Shawshank Redemption related to Ancient Stoicism? How does Tarantino's Pulp Fiction showcase Aristotelian ethics? These and other intriguing questions are addressed in Box Office Philosophy: Philosophy Articles on Hollywood Cinema. Complete with research-based articles and insights, Box Office Philosophy explores hidden philosophical messages within many of our favorite Hollywood films and shows. --- Films/TV Shows include The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, The Hunger Games, Django Unchained, West Side Story, The Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Modern Family, Entourage, Ballers, How I Met Your Mother, Law & Order (and many more)

Where is the space for contemporary environmentalism when both the utopian promises of a clean and pure earthly Eden and the dystopian prophecies of an environmental apocalypse have failed to be fully realized? Rather than falling into one of these familiar environmental categories, contemporary space is configured, as this book outlines, as heterotopia, an in-between space of dissonance, where encounters with waste are a daily occurrence and where dirty matter refuses to submit to human demands and intentions. Through an exploration of a series of spaces in which acts of leisure and recreation are configured alongside vibrant dirty matter, this book explores how contemporary heterotopia offer entanglements with a dirty other that promote novel opportunities for humans to ethically respond and be responsible to the continued presence of waste and to generate a sense of ecological care for a dirty world. In doing so, the book urges readers away from a utopian vision of what the environment should be and instead asks how we can ethically exist within and around the dirtied environment as it is. This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, environmental rhetorics, and environmental ethics.

Presents the story of how the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill grew from a single course in the English department in 1909 to become an international leader in journalism - mass communication education.