Cavell''s Ontology of Film - The World Viewed After Half a Century

Cavell's Ontology of Film presents ten essays that reflect on The World Viewed, Stanley Cavell's now seminal film-philosophical book from 1971, and project its concepts and ideas into our future.

About the author

Jeroen Gerrits is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (SUNY) and author of Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Jeroen Gerrits
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.12.2026
• EAN: 9781839995149
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-514-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Anthem Film and Culture; Anthem Studies in Writers and Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism