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Cavell on Film
About this book
This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of Stanley Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film. Cavell is the only major philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition who has made film a central concern of his work, and his work offers inspiration and new directions to the field of film studies. The essays and other writings in this volume, presented in the order of their composition, range from major theoretical statements and extended critical studies of individual films or filmmakers to occasional pieces, all of which illuminate Cavell's practice of philosophy as it has developed in the more than three decades since the publication of The World Viewed. All periods of Cavell's career are represented, from the 1970s to the present, and the book includes many previously unpublished essays written since the early 1990s. In his introduction, William Rothman provides a useful and eloquent overview of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally.
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Table of contents
- Cavell on Film
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. What Becomes of Things on Film?
- 2. On Makavejev on Bergman
- 3. North by Northwest
- 4. The Fact of Television
- 5. The Thought of Movies
- 7. What (Good) Is a Film Museum? What Is a Film Culture?
- 8. A Capra Moment
- 9. The Fantastic of Philosophy
- 10. Two Cheers for Romance
- 11. The Advent of Videos
- 12. Prénom: Marie
- 13. Nothing Goes without Saying: Reading the Marx Brothers
- 14. Seasons of Love: Bergmanâs Smiles of a Summer Night and The Winterâs Tale
- 15. Words of Welcome
- 16. Groundhog Day
- 17. Something Out of the Ordinary
- 18. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting
- 19. Concluding Remarks Presented at Paris Colloquium on La Projection du monde
- 20. On Eric Rohmerâs A Tale of Winter
- 21. The Image of the Psychoanalyst in Film
- 22. Opera in (and As) Film
- 23. Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
- 24. The Good of Film
- 25. Moral Reasoning: Teaching from the Core
- 26. Crossing Paths
- 27. After Half a Century
- Index