Cavell on Film.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavell, Stanley.

Contributor:

Rothman, William.

Series:

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (567 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition

"Introducing The Lady Eve" (1999)

"Slapstick without Sticks" (2001)

"Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (2005)

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2006)

"Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale" (2008)

Notes

Introduction

1. What Becomes of Things on Film? (1978)

2. On Makavejev on Bergman (1979)

3. North by Northwest (1981)

4. The Fact of Television (1982)

5. The Thought of Movies (1983)

Postscript

6. What (Good) Is a Film Museum? What Is a Film Culture? (1983)

7. What Photography Calls Thinking (1985)

8. A Capra Moment (1985)

9. The Fantastic of Philosophy (1986)

10. Two Cheers for Romance (1988)

11. The Advent of Videos (1988)

12. Prénom: Marie (1993)

13. Nothing Goes without Saying: Reading the Marx Brothers (1994)

14. Seasons of Love: Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night and The Winter's Tale (1994)

15. Words of Welcome (1996)

Jay Cantor

William Rothman

Eliot Weinberger

Maureen Howard

Phillip Lopate

Robert Gardner

16. Groundhog Day (1996)

17. Something Out of the Ordinary (1996)

18. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting (1998)

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19. Concluding Remarks Presented at Paris Colloquium on La Projection du monde (1999)

20. On Eric Rohmer's A Tale of Winter (1999)

21. The Image of the Psychoanalyst in Film (2000)

22. Opera in (and As) Film (2000)

[Screening of Five Excerpts]

[Screening of Four Excerpts from Moonstruck]

[Screening of Love Duets-The Opera, Then the Film]

[Screening of Segment from the Lady Eve]

23. Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (2000).

24. The Good of Film (2000)

25. Moral Reasoning: Teaching from the Core (2001)

26. Crossing Paths (2002)

27. After Half a Century (2001)

28. Introducing The Lady Eve (1999)

29. Slapstick without Sticks (2001)

30. Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise (2005)

31. Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

32. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2006)

Note

33. Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale (2008)

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0163-7

OCLC:

1503842457