Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films
Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

Author: Shaw Daniel Shaw

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-05

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1474455735

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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 perfectionism. Focusing on his account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, Dan Shaw draws on Cavell's theories to interpret a range of classic and contemporary dramas, including Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Boys Don't Cry (1999) and The Hurt Locker (2008). Pairing of these analyses with discussions of Cavell's precursors, including Emerson, Nietzsche and Mill, the book explores a distinctively American philosophical foundation for the study of Hollywood film.

Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films
Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

Author: Daniel Shaw

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-05

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1474455727

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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 perfectionism. Focusing on his account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, Dan Shaw draws on Cavell's theories to interpret a range of classic and contemporary dramas, including Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Boys Don't Cry (1999) and The Hurt Locker (2008). Pairing of these analyses with discussions of Cavell's precursors, including Emerson, Nietzsche and Mill, the book explores a distinctively American philosophical foundation for the study of Hollywood film.

Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind
Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind

Author: David LaRocca

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1501351923

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In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell's writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-that exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavell's film philosophy, we naturally find ourselves contending with it and amending it, as the case may be. Through a series of interpretive vignettes, the group effort situates, for the expert and novitiate alike, how Cavell's writing on film can profitably enrich one's experience of cinema generally and also inform how we might continue the practice of serious philosophical criticism of specific films mindful of his sensibility. The resulting conversations between texts, traditions, disciplines, genres, and generations creates propitious conditions for discovering what it means to watch and listen to movies with Stanley Cavell in mind.

The World Viewed
The World Viewed

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0674253353

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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.

The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema
The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema

Author: David LaRocca

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1501349171

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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.

Cavell on Film
Cavell on Film

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2005-04-21

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780791464328

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Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.

Contesting Tears
Contesting Tears

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780226098142

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A Note on the Captions Preface Introduction 1: Naughty Orators: Negation of Voices in Gaslight 2: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Moments of Letter from an Unknown Woman3: Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, Voyager 4: Postscript: To Whom It May Concern 5: Stella's Taste: Reading Stella Dallas Notes Bibliography Filmography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Pursuits of Happiness
Pursuits of Happiness

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780674739062

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Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.

Stanley Cavell and Film
Stanley Cavell and Film

Author: Catherine Wheatley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1350113239

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“Film is made for philosophy,” asserted Stanley Cavell. In addition to his work on scepticism, morality, and the intentions and meanings of ordinary language, the American philosopher wrote fascinatingly about cinema, arguing that film can reveal new ground for thinking through old philosophical problems. In this book, Catherine Wheatley draws upon Cavell's explicitly film-inspired works, key philosophical concepts and autobiographical writings, examining his analyses of films from Hollywood's Golden Age, the French New Wave, contemporary action cinema, silent film heroes Chaplin and Keaton, directors Cocteau and Hitchcock, and performers Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers. Revealing the ways in which Cavell's thinking was shaped by the movies, Wheatly poses the question: what was it about film that taught the philosopher how best to live in the world?