Happiness and Tears, After Cavell
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Happiness and Tears, After Cavell

New Readings in Hollywood's Comedy of Remarriage and Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

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Happiness and Tears, After Cavell

New Readings in Hollywood's Comedy of Remarriage and Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

About this book

Explores contemporary expressions of these two genres, and their continuing relevance, in recent Hollywood films.

Stanley Cavell's influential philosophical work on American cinema concerns itself with the thought that some of the most popular movies of Hollywood's Golden Age constitute two related, but previously undefined, genres that he names "the comedy of remarriage" and "the melodrama of the unknown woman," respectively. In this collection, the first devoted to the subject, leading figures in philosophy and film studies provide detailed readings of more recent Hollywood films that show how these two genres continue to be inherited in American cinema, not least by the films' participation in a certain moral outlookā€”concerning personal and cultural transformationā€”that Cavell calls "Emersonian Perfectionism." The films discussed include Rich and Famous, As Good as It Gets, My Best Friend's Wedding, Revolutionary Road, On the Rocks, Palm Springs, and Tenet.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The Question of Sex: Thoughts on the Cavellian Couple Inspired by Rich and Famous
  10. 2 Asking for More than As Good as It Gets
  11. 3 Contesting Marriage: My Best Friendā€™s Wedding
  12. 4 Imagining Life Together: Psychosexual Intimacy, Social Roles, and Contemporary Comedies of Remarriage
  13. 5 ā€œI Saw a Different Life. I Canā€™t Stop Seeing Itā€: Perfectionist Visions in Revolutionary Road
  14. 6 I Love You, Man: The Bromance as Remarriage
  15. 7 The Time of Their Lives: Before Midnight and the Conversation of Marriage
  16. 8 Golden Years: Generational Contest, Terms of Talent, and Remarriage in Noah Baumbachā€™s While Weā€™re Young
  17. 9 Staging Unknown Women
  18. 10 Moral Imperfectionism and Ethical Melodrama: The Case of Carol
  19. 11 The Same Only a Little Different: A Star is Born is Reborn (Again)
  20. 12 An End of Wandering: Coming to Believe in Palm Springs
  21. 13 The Comedy of Remarriage in the Age of Lean-In Feminism: Sofia Coppolaā€™s On the Rocks
  22. 14 The Proving Window: Inversion, Perfectionism, and the Unknown Woman in Christopher Nolanā€™s Tenet
  23. List of Contributors
  24. Index
  25. Back Cover