Haunting the World : Essays on Film after Perkins and Cavell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lash, Dominic.

Series:

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism.

Philosophy in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book, authored by Dominic Lash, explores the intersection of film criticism and philosophy, focusing on the works of V. F. Perkins and Stanley Cavell. It examines themes such as diegesis, disruption, privacy, consent, and expression in film, along with broader philosophical questions about agency, skepticism, and idolatry. The text delves into the analysis of specific films and filmmakers, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Kelly Reichardt, Ridley Scott, and others, to illustrate these concepts. By engaging with critical theory and philosophical discourse, the book aims to deepen the understanding of cinematic art and its relation to human experience. It is intended for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of film studies and philosophy. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Naive Film Criticism

Part One. V. F. Perkins

1 Film as Film in the Twenty-First Century

2 V. F. Perkins and the Redescription of Films

Perkins and Redescription: Introduction

Description in (Film) Theory and Practice

Description and Moral Philosophy

Failures of Redescription

Letter from an Unknown Woman

America, America

Part Two. Stanley Cavell

3 “Not Yet the Last”: On a Paragraph by Stanley Cavell

Deceptively Idiomatic: Privacy and Fantasy

Self-stultifying Pairings?

Ghost Stories: Haunting and Betrayal

Painting

Last Judgments

4 Cavellian Reflections on Privacy, Consent, and Expression in Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul (Teströl és lélekröl)

5 (Re)producing Marriage: Stanley Cavell and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread

Poisonous Remarriage

Skepticism

Disorientation and the Production of Criteria

Eternal Return

6 Experience, Skepticism, and Idolatry in Stanley Kubrick, Nicholas Lash, and Stanley Cavell

Nicholas Lash on Religious Experience

Cinematic Ontology and the Experience of Film

The Experience of Stanley Kubrick Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0311-2

OCLC:

1524424132