The World Viewed: - Reflections on the Ontology of Film

Informationen zum Autor Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) was Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. His numerous books include The Claim of Reason , Cities of Words , and Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow . Klappentext Hear Lawrence Buell, Michael Sandel, Stanley Cavell, and Wai Chee Dimock speak at the Bicentennial Emerson Forum to be held April 3, 2003 at Harvard University. Read more... Zusammenfassung Stanley Cavell looks closely at America’s most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood’s stars, directors, and most famous films—as well as his fresh look at Godard, Bergman, and other great European directors—will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent people everywhere. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword to the Enlarged Edition Preface 1. An Autobiography of Companions 2. Sights and Sounds 3. Photograph and Screen 4. Audience! Actor! and Star 5. Types; Cycles as Genres 6. Ideas of Origin 7. Baudelaire and the Myths of Film 8. The Military Man and the Woman 9. The Dandy 10. End of the Myths 11. The Medium and Media of Film 12. The World as Mortal: Absolute Age and Youth 13. The World as a Whole: Color 14. Automatism 15. Excursus: Some Modernist Painting 16. Exhibition and Self-Reference 17. The Camera's Implication 18. Assertions in Techniques 19. The Acknowledgment of Silence More of The World Viewed Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Cavel, Stanley Cavell, Cavell Stanley
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1980
• EAN: 9780674961968
• ISBN: 978-0-674-96196-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Harvard Film Studies; Harvard Film Studies; Harvard Film Studies (HUP)
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Film, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general