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Providing evidence for a philosophical claim: The Act of Killing and the banality of evil

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dc.creatorWartenberg, Thomas E.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:24:18Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:24:18Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article extends the thesis that films can do philosophy from narrative fiction film to documentary, a film genre whose philosophical significance has been underappreciated. It argues that documentary films are capable of doing philosophy by providing empirical support for a philosophical thesis. Focusing on the innovative use of reenactment in THE ACT OF KILLING (2012), the argument is that the film confirms Hannah Arendt’s thesis concerning the banality of evil articulated in EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM (1964).en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3401
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/providing-evidence-philosophical-claim-act-killing-banality-evil/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4170
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectDokumentarfilmde
dc.subjectFilmphilosophiede
dc.subjectGenozidde
dc.subjectBösede
dc.subjectdocumentaryen
dc.subjectevilen
dc.subjectfilm-as-philosophyen
dc.subjectgenocideen
dc.subjectphilosophyen
dc.subjectre-enactmenten
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personHannah Arendt
dc.subject.personJoshua Oppenheimer
dc.subject.workTHE ACT OF KILLING
dc.titleProviding evidence for a philosophical claim: The Act of Killing and the banality of evilen
dc.typearticle
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationWartenberg, Thomas E. (2017): Providing evidence for a philosophical claim: The Act of Killing and the banality of evil. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 6 (2), 73–90. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3401.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:20
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/providing-evidence-philosophical-claim-act-killing-banality-evil/
local.source.epage90
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage73
local.source.volume6
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/11850391X
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/173153690
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local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6290103
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7712287

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