The World Viewed

Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

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by Stanley Cavell

Type: Studies
Subject: Theory
Keywords: philosophy, Stanley Cavell
Publishing date: 1979
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Collection: Harvard Film Studies
Language: English

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Paperback • 280 pages
5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches (13.5 x 21 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-674-96196-X
978-0-674-96196-8

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Book Presentation:
Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films--as well as his fresh look at Godard, Bergman, and other great European directors--will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent people everywhere.

About the Author:
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) was Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. His numerous books include The Claim of Reason, Cities of Words, and Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow.

Press Reviews:
Perhaps more than in any other country, film studies in the United States have been hampered by a tradition of casual reporting and a smuggish academic refusal to allow a mass entertainment art any serious intellectual status. Stanley Cavell’s The World Viewed is an important a valuable counter to this tradition and its journalistic judgments… As a philosopher of art, Cavell is clearly not only a rigorous thinker but an imaginative one who can convincingly integrate phenomenological concepts into film studies or translate figures from Baudelaire’s Painter of Modern Life into illuminating categories of film analysis.
—Timothy Corrigan, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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