A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment

Introduction: Film as Freedom: The Meaning of Film as Philosophy

1. Implicating the Narrator, Implicating the Audience: Waltz with Bashir and Apocalypto

2. How to Represent a Past We Would Rather Forget: Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad

3. Learning from Conceptually Impossible Versions of Our World: Never Let Me Go and The Road

4. When Melancholia is Exactly What is Called For: Melancholia and Solaris

5. Gravity's arc; or Gravity: A Space Odyssey

6. The Fantasy of Absolute Safety through Absolute Power: The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar

Conclusion: What have we learnt?