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The holiday in his eye : Stanley Cavell's vision of film and philosophy /

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rothman, William (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Cavell Reading Cavell
  • 2 Introduction to Reading Cavell's "The World Viewed" (with Marian Keane)
  • 3 Sights and Sounds (with Marian Keane)
  • 4 The Acknowledgment of Silence (with Marian Keane)
  • 5 Cavell's Philosophy and What Film Studies Calls "Theory"
  • Statement Read at Plenary Session of the 1991 Society for Cinema Studies Annual Meeting
  • 6 Response to Vivian Sobchack's The Address of the Eye
  • 7 Pursuits of Happiness: Cavell in Transition
  • 8 In Defense of Pursuits of Happiness
  • 9 Viewing the World in Black and White
  • Now, Voyager
  • Stella Dallas
  • Blonde Venus
  • Show Boat
  • Imitation of Life
  • 10 Cavell's Creation
  • Who Is Stanley Cavell?
  • Who Is Cary Grant?
  • "Stella's Taste"
  • 11 Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be
  • 12 Cavell on Film, Television, and Opera (excerpts)
  • "The Fact of Television"
  • Contesting Tears
  • "Opera and the Lease of Voice"
  • "Opera in and as Film"
  • 13 Cavell on Film: Introduction
  • 14 The Same Again, Only a Little Different: Cavell's Two Takes on The Philadelphia Story
  • 15 Cavell, Emerson, Hitchcock: Reflections Inspired by Stanley Cavell's Cities of Words
  • 16 On Richard Allen's "Hitchcock and Cavell"
  • 17 Introduction to Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
  • 18 On Stanley Cavell's Band Wagon
  • Epilogue
  • 19 "Excerpts from Memory": Autobiography, Film, and the Double Existence of Cavell's Philosophical Prose
  • 20 Stanley Cavell, Victor Perkins, and the Personal
  • Afterword
  • Works Cited
  • Index.