The philosophy of J. J. Abrams /
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- "Grey matters": personal identity in the Fringe universe(s) / A.P. Taylor and Justin Donhauser
- Person of Interest: the machine, Gilles Deleuze, and a thousand plateaus of identity / Franklin Allaire
- Are J.J. Abrams's "leading ladies" really feminist role models? / Cynthia Jones
- The end is nigh: Armageddon and the meaning of life found through death / Ashly Barkman
- The fear of Bones: on the dread of space and death / Jerry S. Piven and Jeffrey E. Stephenson
- Do we all need to get shot in the head? Regarding Henry, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and ethical transformation / Adam Barkman
- Fringe and "if science can do it, then science ought to do it" / Phil Smolenski and Charlene Elsby
- An inconsistent triad? Competing ethics in Star Trek into Darkness / Jason T. Eberl
- The monster and the mensch / Randall E. Auxier
- Abrams, Aristotle, and alternative worlds: finding friendship in the final frontier / Joseph J. Foy
- Heroic love and its inversion in the parent-child relationship in Abrams's Star Trek / Charles Taliaferro and Emilie Judge-Becker
- You can't choose your family: impartial morality and personal obligations in Alias / Brendan Shea
- Is Abrams's Star Trek a Star Trek film? / Daniel Whiting
- Determinism, free will, and moral responsibility in Alias / Vishal Garg
- Finding directions by indirection: The Island as a blank slate / Elly Vintiadis and Spyros D. Petrounakos
- You can't change the past: the philosophy of time travel in Star Trek and Lost / Andrew Fyfe
- Rabbit's feet, hatches, and monsters: mysteries vs. questions in J.J. Abrams's stories / Paul DiRado
- Monsters of the world, unite! Cloverfield, capital, and ecological crisis / Jeff Ewing
- Cloverfield, Super 8, and the morality of terrorism / Robert Arp and Patricia Brace
- A place for revolutions in Revolution? Marxism, feminism, and the Monroe Republic / Jeff Ewing
- A light in the darkness: ethical reflections on Revolution / Michael Versteeg and Adam Barkman.