The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema

Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8407-3 (ISBN)

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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.

David LaRocca is the author, editor, or coeditor of more than a dozen books. He edited Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind (Bloomsbury, 2021), Inheriting Stanley Cavell (Bloomsbury, 2020), a commemorative issue of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies (2019), and Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes (2003). He has taught philosophy and cinema and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghamton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Ithaca College, the School of Visual Arts, the State University of New York College at Cortland, and Vanderbilt University.

Preface: Stanley Cavell and Cinema
Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Introduction: Philosophy’s Claim to Film, Film’s Claim to Philosophy
David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA

Part I. Underwriting and Overhearing: Reconceiving Cinematic Ontology and Genre

1. “Assertions in Technique”: Tracking the Medial “Thread” in Cavell’s Filmic Ontology
Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa, USA

2. Revisiting The World Viewed
Noël Carroll, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA

3. The World Heard
Kyle Stevens, Appalachian State University, USA

4. What a Genre of Film Might Be: Medium, Myth, and Morality
Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford University, UK

Part II. Interlude: Temperaments for Film

5. My Troubled Relationship with Stanley Cavell: In Pursuit of a Truly Cinematic Conversation
Scott MacDonald, Hamilton College, USA

6. Film as Film and the Personal
William Rothman, University of Miami, USA

Part III. Philosophy, as if Made for Film

7. Between Skepticism and Perfectionism: On Cavell’s Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University, Australia

8. Overcoming Skepticism in Casablanca
Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College, USA

9. A Skeptic’s Reprieve: Cavell on Comedy in Shakespeare and the Movies
Lawrence F. Rhu, University of South Carolina, USA

Part IV. Film, as if Made for Philosophy

10. Film Exists in a State of Philosophy: Two Contemporary Cavellian Views
Shawn Loht, Baton Rouge Community College, USA

11. The Conception of Film for the Subject of Television: Moral Education of the Public and a Return to an Aesthetics of the Ordinary
Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France

12. On Film in Reality: Cavellian Reflections on Skepticism, Belief, and Documentary
Mathew Abbott, Federation University, Australia

13. On the Aesthetics of Amateur Filmmaking in Narrative Cinema: Negotiating Home Movies after Adam’s Rib
David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA

Acknowledgements
Index
Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-8407-4 / 1501384074
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8407-3 / 9781501384073
Zustand	Neuware