Stanley Cavell and the magic of Hollywood films /

"One of America's most important contemporary thinkers, Stanley Cavell's remarkable film philosophy proposed that the greatest Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we really are - a struggle that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Cavell, Stanley, > 1926-2018.
Cavell, Stanley, > 1926-2018
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire.
Cinéma > Philosophie.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Philosophy
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: defining the magic: why Stanley Cavell?
  • Projecting reality
  • Stanley Cavell: Emersonian individualist
  • Cavell on Nietzsche: the ascetic ideal, eternal recurrence, and "higher self"
  • Comedies of remarriage and the transfiguration of the commonplace
  • How the unknown woman finds her voice in Contesting Tears
  • Cavell and Wittgenstein and skepticism: redeeming the law
  • Heidegger, Cavell, and Woody Allen: Another Woman
  • Halls of Montezuma and the utility of war
  • Thoreau, civil disobedience, and Selma
  • Lockean liberalism and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Cavell's notions of acknowledgement and Boys don't cry

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