Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.
The book is crowned with an interview with Wittgensteinian philosopher Stanley Cavell, discussing his interests in philosophy and in film and how they can come together.
In this book, Catherine Wheatley draws upon Cavell's explicitly film-inspired works, key philosophical concepts and autobiographical writings, examining his analyses of films from Hollywood's Golden Age, the French New Wave, contemporary ...
William Rothman, in his doctoral dissertation on aesthetics and cinema (Harvard, 1973), argues, to my mind convincingly, that a particular relation between the shown and the unshown is central to Hitchcock's narrative style, ...
The present collection offers, for the first time anywhere, a concerted effort mounted by some of today's most compelling writers on film to take careful account of Cavell's legacy.
Murderous Gaze, the Hitchcock villain, master of the art of murder, is also a stand-in for the film's author, Hitchcock, master of what he called the “art of pure cinema.” Hitchcock's villains are his accomplices in artistic creation.
Cavell's simultaneous recovery in Emerson and Thoreau of an American philosophical tradition and an American tradition of ... of American philosophy, see in particular Russell B. Goodman, American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition ...
A philosophical study of popular movies uses the viewer as a point of reference
The present collection offers, for the first time anywhere, a concerted effort mounted by some of today's most compelling writers on film to take careful account of Cavell's legacy.
Philosophy and the Patience of Film presents a comparative study of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Stanley Cavell.
... 14 Dada , Surrealism and Their Heritage ( Rubin ) , cinematic : concept of , 128 , 139 186 City Lights ( 1931 ) , 44 , 93. ... See also Kubrick , world , 64 , 89 Stanley Contempt ( 1963 ) , 51 , 166 , 170 , 172 , 204 , drama ...