FILM AND PHILOSOPHY is 3 years old. The SPSCVA (the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts) is pleased to announce the 3rd issue of its journal -- FILM AND PHILOSOPHY. It's also our largest ever! (which only means that it's larger than its two predecessors). Here is the Table of Contents: F I L M A N D P H I L O S O P H Y Volume III 1996 Monstrous Equivocation 3 by Mark Vorobej Horror and the Problem of Personal Identity: Dead Ringers 14 by Daniel Shaw Fascinating Knowledge 24 by Cimberli Kearns Hitchcock and Deductive Reasoning: Moving Step by Step in Vertigo 38 by Dan Flory Fresh Phronesis 53 by Joseph Kupfer John Ford's The Searchers as an Allegory of the Philosophical Search 61 by Richard Gilmore Documentary Images and Shared Encounters 77 by David Brubaker Narrative Manipulation and Documentary Truth: Putting the Move on 87 Audiences in Hoop Dreams by John Arthos Crumb: Whereof One Should Not Speak 95 by Harvey Roy Greenberg Hara-Kiri and the Aftermath of Peace in 17th Century Japan 99 by Paul Belbutowski Projecting the Real: Torantore's Cinema Paradiso, Plato and 107 Psychoanalysis by Erich D. Freiberger 12 Monkeys: The Rags of Time 123 by Harvey Roy Greenberg In the Twinkling of an Eye: Nietzschean Undercurrents in Terry 130 Gilliam's 12 Monkeys by Sean Cridland From Night to Day: Nihilism and the Walking Dead 138 by John A. Marmysz Hans-Jrgen Syberg's Opera Film, Parsifal: Visual Transformation 145 and Philosophical Reconstruction by Norman Fischer The Failure of Imagination in Thelma and Louise: The Crisis of 154 Identity in the Pursuit of the Ideal by Elizabeth Jones ". . . We Don't Live in that Kind of World, Thelma" 161 by Leilani Nevarez Luce Changing Perspectives of Motherhood: Images from the Aliens Trilogy 167 by Valerie Gray Hardcastle The Crying Game and the Destabilization of Masculinity 176 by Richard Gull This year's cover is by Melina Lima You can own one of these. Send $10 to Fred Seddon Treasurer: SPSCVA, 23 Mt. Oliver Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, USA You will also automatically become a member of the SPSCVA and receive their other publication, the _SPSCVA Review_. For those with high currency conversion costs, we accept Visa and MasterCard. E-mail me with you card info, and name and address. Kendall D'Andrade [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]