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Cavell on Film
About this book
A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.
Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete retrospective of his writings on cinema, which continues to offer inspiration and new directions to the field of film and media studies. The essays and other writings collected here include major theoretical statements and extended critical studies of individual films and filmmakers, as well as occasional pieces, all of which illustrate Cavell's practice of film-philosophy as it developed in the decades following the publication of his landmark work, The World Viewed. This revised edition includes six additional essays, five of them previously unpublished, that illuminate his inspiring vision of a humanistic study rooted in a marriage of film and philosophy. In his introduction and in the preface to this new edition, William Rothman provides an overview of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- 1. What Becomes of Things on Film? (1978)
- 2. On Makavejev on Bergman (1979)
- 3. North by Northwest (1981)
- 4. The Fact of Television (1982)
- 5. The Thought of Movies (1983)
- 6. What (Good) Is a Film Museum? What Is a Film Culture? (1983)
- 7. What Photography Calls Thinking (1985)
- 8. A Capra Moment (1985)
- 9. The Fantastic of Philosophy (1986)
- 10. Two Cheers for Romance (1988)
- 11. The Advent of Videos (1988)
- 12. Prénom: Marie (1993)
- 13. Nothing Goes without Saying: Reading the Marx Brothers (1994)
- 14. Seasons of Love: Bergmans Smiles of a Summer Night and The Winters Tale (1994)
- 15. Words of Welcome (1996)
- 16. Groundhog Day (1996)
- 17. Something Out of the Ordinary (1996)
- 18. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting (1998)
- 19. Concluding Remarks Presented at Paris Colloquium on La Projection du monde (1999)
- 20. On Eric Rohmers A Tale of Winter (1999)
- 21. The Image of the Psychoanalyst in Film (2000)
- 22. Opera in (and As) Film (2000)
- 23. Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (2000)
- 24. The Good of Film (2000)
- 25. Moral Reasoning: Teaching from the Core (2001)
- 26. Crossing Paths (2002)
- 27. After Half a Century (2001)
- 28. Introducing The Lady Eve (1999)
- 29. Slapstick without Sticks (2001)
- 30. Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise (2005)
- 31. Doug Limans Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
- 32. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2006)
- 33. Arnaud Desplechins A Christmas Tale (2008)
- Index
- Back Cover