Cavell on Film
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Cavell on Film

  1. 427 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

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 All periods of Cavell's career are represented, from the 1970s to the present, and the book includes many previously unpublished essays written since the early 1990s.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

  1. Cavell on Film
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. What Becomes of Things on Film?
  7. 2. On Makavejev on Bergman
  8. 3. North by Northwest
  9. 4. The Fact of Television
  10. 5. The Thought of Movies
  11. 7. What (Good) Is a Film Museum? What Is a Film Culture?
  12. 8. A Capra Moment
  13. 9. The Fantastic of Philosophy
  14. 10. Two Cheers for Romance
  15. 11. The Advent of Videos
  16. 12. Prénom: Marie
  17. 13. Nothing Goes without Saying: Reading the Marx Brothers
  18. 14. Seasons of Love: Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night and The Winter’s Tale
  19. 15. Words of Welcome
  20. 16. Groundhog Day
  21. 17. Something Out of the Ordinary
  22. 18. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting
  23. 19. Concluding Remarks Presented at Paris Colloquium on La Projection du monde
  24. 20. On Eric Rohmer’s A Tale of Winter
  25. 21. The Image of the Psychoanalyst in Film
  26. 22. Opera in (and As) Film
  27. 23. Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
  28. 24. The Good of Film
  29. 25. Moral Reasoning: Teaching from the Core
  30. 26. Crossing Paths
  31. 27. After Half a Century
  32. Index