Reading Cavell's The World Viewed A Philosophical Perspective on Film / William Rothman and Marian Keane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothman, William.

Contributor:

Keane, Marian.

Series:

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Contemporary film and television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavell, Stanley, 1926- World viewed.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In their thoughtful study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books, William Rothman and Marian Keane address this eminent philosopher's many readers, from a variety of disciplines, who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of The World Viewed within the totality of his writings about film. Rothman and Keane also reintroduce The World Viewed to the field of film studies. When the new field entered universities in the late 1960s, it predicated its legitimacy on the conviction that the medium's artistic achievements called for serious criticism and on the corollary conviction that no existing field was capable of the criticism filmed called for. The study of film needed to found itself, intellectually, upon a philosophical investigation of the conditions of the medium and art of film. Such was the challenge The World Viewed took upon itself. However, film studies opted to embrace theory as a higher authority than our experiences of movies, divorcing itself from the philosophical perspective of self-reflection apart from which, The World Viewed teaches, we cannot know what movies mean, or what they are.Rotham and Keane now argue that the poststructuralist theories that dominated film studies for a quarter of a century no longer compel conviction, Cavell's brilliant and beautiful book can provide a sense of liberation to a field that has forsaken its original calling. read in a way that acknowledges its philosophical achievement, The World Viewed can show the field a way to move forward by rediscovering its passion for the art of film. Reading Cavell's The World Viewed will prove invaluable to scholars and students of film and philosophy, and to those in other fields, such as literary studies and American studies, who have found Cavell's work provocative and fruitful.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title""; ""Half-title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Reading The World Viewed""; ""I The Preface: A METAPHYSICAL MEMOIR""; ""II Chapters 1-5: WHAT IS FILM?""; ""III Chapters 6-9: FILM'S ORIGINS AND HISTORY""; ""IV Chapters 10-11: THE END OF THE MYTHS""; ""V Chapters 12-13: THE WORLD AS A WHOLE""; ""VI Chapters 14-15: AUTOMATISM""; ""VII Chapters 16-18: FILM AND THEATRICALITY""; ""VIII Chapter 19: ""THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SILENCE"" ""

""Appendix: Cavell's Philosophical Procedures and Must We Mean What We Say?""""Notes""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-283) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Cavell, Stanley, 1926- World viewed.

ISBN:

0-8143-4010-5

OCLC:

868219147