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The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott
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Table of Contents

I. Responsibility, Remembering, Revision
1.“Good Badmen”: Reading Race in Black Rain, American Gangster,
and Body of Lies
Nancy Kang
2.A Double-Edged Sword: Honor in The Duellists
James Edwin Mahon
3.The Trans-Religious Ethics of Kingdom of Heaven
Michael Garcia
4.Levinasian Responsibility in Someone to Watch Over Me, Black Rain,
and White Squall
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
5. Re-Membering Vietnam in Somalia: Black Hawk Down and Ethical
Militarism in American Historical Memory
David Zietsma
6.1492 and the Ethics of Remembering
Silvio Torres-Saillant
II. Real Lives, Alienated Lives, Ideal Lives
7.What’s Wrong with Building Replicants? Artificial Intelligence in
Blade Runner, Alien, and Prometheus
Greg Littmann
8. A Villainous Appetite: Erôs, Madness, and the Food Analogy in
Hannibal and Legend
Antonio Sanna
9.Detecting Puzzles and Patterns in Numb3rs: No One Escapes
“Scott Free”
Janice Shaw
10.Celebrating Historical Accuracy in The Duellists
Carl Sobocinski
11.Conceptions of Happiness in Matchstick Men and A Good Year
Basileios Kroustallis
12.Techno-Totalitarianism in Alien
Dan Dinello
III. Gender, Identity, Selfhood
13.Through Space, Over a Cliff, and Into a Trench: The Shifting
Feminist Ideologies of Alien, Thelma & Louise, and G.I. Jane
Aviva Dove-Viebahn
14.Why Doesn’t Hannibal Kill Clarice? The Philosophy of a Monstrous
Romantic in Hannibal
Matthew Freeman
15.In the Guise of Character: Costumes, Narrative, and the Reality of
Artifice in Thelma & Louise
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
16.Becoming Authentic in Matchstick Men Through the Ultimate Con
Elizabeth Abele
17.Virginity in Alien: The Essence of Ripley’s Survival
Sydney Palmer
18.Gladiator, Gender, and Marriage in Heaven: A Christian Exploration
Adam Barkman
Index
Contributors

About the Author

Adam Barkman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Redeemer University College. He is the author of C. S. Lewis and Philosophy as a Way of Life (Zossima Press, 2009), Through Common Things: Philosophical Reflections on Global Popular Culture (Winged Lion, 2010), and Above All Things: Essays on Christian Ethics and Popular Culture (Winged Lion, 2011), and is the co-editor of Manga and Philosophy (Open Court, 2010) and The Philosophy of Ang Lee (University Press of Kentucky, 2013).

Ashley Barkman is a part-time lecturer of philosophy and English at Redeemer University College and is the author of several articles on philosophy and pop culture including chapters in 30 Rock and Philosophy (Wiley, 2010), The Walking Dead and Philosophy (Open Court, 2012), and The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy (Wiley, 2012)

Nancy Kang is Assistant Professor of Multicultural and Diaspora Literatures at the University of Baltimore. She also served as Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Syracuse University (2007-2011), affiliated with the Native Studies Program, the Asian & Asian American Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, and the Department of English. Her publications include current or forthcoming articles in Canadian Literature, Women’s Studies, The African American Review, Callaloo, Essays on Canadian Writing, and various chapters in edited collections.

Reviews

What do Alien and Gladiator have to do with Aristotle and German Philosophers? Not only will you find them talked about in this book, but you'll also see the breadth and depth of Ridley Scott's own philosophical thinking as highlighted by the various authors in their easily readable and engaging chapters.
*Robert Arp, independent researcher and editor of 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think*

"The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott is an enthralling series of essays written from a variety of perspectives on the work of a much underrated filmmaker, focusing not only on his most well-known films such as Alien and Blade Runner, but surveying lesser-known works such as Legend and Someone to Watch over Me. The editors deserve to be congratulated on their efforts in providing a book that tells us as much about the realities of contemporary film directing as about Scott himself."
*Laurence Raw, author of The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia*

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