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Stanley Cavell and Film

Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema

Catherine Wheatley author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:25th Feb '21

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This book explores how cinema influenced leading American philosopher Stanley Cavell’s moral and social philosophy and thinking on everyday language.

“Film is made for philosophy,” asserted Stanley Cavell. In addition to his work on scepticism, morality, and the intentions and meanings of ordinary language, the American philosopher wrote fascinatingly about cinema, arguing that film can reveal new ground for thinking through old philosophical problems.

In this book, Catherine Wheatley draws upon Cavell’s explicitly film-inspired works, key philosophical concepts and autobiographical writings, examining his analyses of films from Hollywood’s Golden Age, the French New Wave, contemporary action cinema, silent film heroes Chaplin and Keaton, directors Cocteau and Hitchcock, and performers Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers. Revealing the ways in which Cavell’s thinking was shaped by the movies, Wheatly poses the question: what was it about film that taught the philosopher how best to live in the world?

Wheatley deftly synthesizes the wide ranging and interdisciplinary works of Cavell into a coherent unity. * Film Matters *

ISBN: 9781350191358

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 372g

320 pages