Cavell on Film

Stanley Cavell author William Rothman editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:State University of New York Press

Published:1st Mar '25

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

Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete retrospective of his writings on cinema, which continues to offer inspiration and new directions to the field of film and media studies. The essays and other writings collected here include major theoretical statements and extended critical studies of individual films and filmmakers, as well as occasional pieces, all of which illustrate Cavell's practice of film-philosophy as it developed in the decades following the publication of his landmark work, The World Viewed. This revised edition includes six additional essays, five of them previously unpublished, that illuminate his inspiring vision of a humanistic study rooted in a marriage of film and philosophy. In his introduction and in the preface to this new edition, William Rothman provides an overview of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally.

"A perfect stand-alone intro to Cavell's overarching project, namely to transmit his continuously amazed perception that film exists as an instantiation of philosophy itself." — Film Comment

ISBN: 9798855801613

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm

Weight: 703g

514 pages

Second Edition