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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothman, William, author.

Series:

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, American--20th century.

Philosophy, American.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Cavell, Stanley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438486079

1438486073

OCLC:

1268327046