… our world, in general we do “know what we think we know.” This … of skepticism films in
mainstream cinema that puts into doubt … revealing the manipulative potential of modern …

… the silver screen mostly with the help of films that involve mentally unstable characters), has
… the film. Chapter 8 discusses in more detail how skepticism films fit in the current cinematic …

… category of “skepticism films” characterized by Cartesian “scenarios that support the claim
or suspicion that we are not able to ‘know what we think we know’ . . . about the world we live …

Philipp Schmerheim zufolge lässt sich seit den 1990er Jahren verstärkt ein genreübergreifendes
Phänomen ausmachen, das er als skepticism films bezeichnet. Gemeint sind damit …

Philipp Schmerheim zufolge lässt sich seit den 1990er Jahren verstärkt ein genreübergreifendes
Phänomen ausmachen, das er als skepticism films bezeichnet. Gemeint sind damit …

… modern cinema’s protagonists to correlate on a higher level with a break between humans
and the world. … Deleuze calls on modern cinema to film, “not the world, but belief in this world” …

… skepticism in film, with Schmerheim focusing on the portrayal of skepticism in contemporary
cinema and Trifonova discussing Stanley Cavell's perspective on the ontology of film. Moritz (…

… succumbed to skepticism about sight. This can be explained, I argue in chapter 4, by the
fact that such skepticism provides a powerful rationale for the purpose of cinematic art, thereby …

… on the relevance of epistemological skepticism in contemporary world cinema. 2 Cavell …
-world skepticism: the skeptical impetus, the skeptical conclusion, and the defeat of skepticism. …

… , that inquiring whether we can know that another being is … asking whether we can know
whether the world exists (as we … of epistemological skepticism in contemporary world cinema. …