The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema - Turning Anew to Ontology of Film a Half Century after The World

Stanley Cavell was, by many accounts, America''s greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and Perkins in England, Cavell did not just transform the American capacity to take film as a subject for philosophical criticism; he had to first invent that legitimacy. Part of that effort involved the creation of several key now-canonical texts in film studies, among them the seminal The World Viewed along with Pursuits of Happiness and Contesting Tears . 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. The contributors think anew about what precisely Cavell contributed, what holds up, what is in need to revision or updating, and how his writing continues to be of vital significance and relevance for any contemporary approach to the philosophy of film.>

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• Authors: David LaRocca, David (Binghamton University Larocca, David (Cornell University Larocca, LaRocca David
• Assisted by: David LaRocca (Editor), David (Cornell University Larocca (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781501349164
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-4916-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Popular philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism