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About the Editors Thomas
E. Wartenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke
College, researching the intersection between philosophy and culture.
A former Fulbright Research Fellow and a National Endowment for
the Humanities Fellow, he is the author of Unlikely Couples:
Movie Romance as Social Criticism (1999). His other
publications include The Nature of Art (ed., 2002) and
Philosophy and Film (co-ed., 1995). Angela
Curran assistant professor of philosophy at Carleton
College in Northfield, Minnesota. Her primary areas of research
are ancient Greek philosophy, aesthetics, and philosophy of film.
Her work in philosophy
of film includes an essay on tragedy and film horror, "Aristotelian
Reflections on Horror and Tragedy in An American Werewolf
in London and Sixth Sense," for Dark Thoughts:
Philosophical Reflections on Cinematic Horror (2003); and
"Consuming Doubts: Gender, Class, and Consumption in Ruby
in Paradise and Clueless," for Hollywood
Goes Shopping (2000).
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