Movies and Philosophy of Culture

Please notice:

● This minicurso is a seminar (no lecture) that offers a philosophical analysis of movies through a discussion on each movie in which all participants actively participate.

● This presupposes that the participants watch the movie before the seminar.

● Participants may speak in Portuguese but must understand English.

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Wednesday, January 31 | Dimensions of unreality

9:00 – 9:30: Introduction

9:30 – 11:00: World of reality and world of illusion

Movie: The Matrix (1999) (film directors: Andy and Larry Wachowski)

11:00 – 11:30: coffee break

11:30 – 13:00: Vision of history as eternal return of violence, oppression, and resistance against them?

Movie: Cloud Atlas (2012) (film directors: Tom Tykwer, Andrew Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski)

13:00 – 14:30: lunch break

14:30 – 16:00: Artificial Intelligence, Human beings and emotions

Movie: Ex Machina (2014) (film director: Alex Garland)

16:00 – 16:30: coffee break

16:30 – 18:00: return of the same vs. meaning of life

Movie: Groundhog Day (1993) (film director: Harold Ramis)

Thursday, February 1 | Norms of collective emotions

9:30 – 11:00: Facing death

Movie: The Seventh Seal (1957) (film director: Ingmar Bergman)

11:00 – 11:30: coffee break

11:30 – 13:00: Sentiments between aboriginal norms and western colonial norms

Movie: Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) (film director: Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau)

13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break

14:30 – 16:00: Ending unforgiveness

Movie: East of Eden (1955) (film director: Elia Kazan)

16:00 – 16:30: coffee break

16:30 – 18:00: Emotional sentencing in criminal cases

Movie: Twelve Angry Men (1957) (film director: Sidney Lumet)

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