The Holiday in His Eye
Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy
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Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.
From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell's philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosophers in the United States to make film a significant focus of his thought, and William Rothman has long been one of his most astute readers. The Holiday in His Eye collects Rothman's writings about Cavell—many of them previously unpublished—to offer a lucid, serious introduction to and overview of Cavell's work, the influence of which has been somewhat limited by both the intrinsic difficulty of his ideas and his challenging prose style. In these engaging and accessible yet philosophically serious and rigorously argued essays, Rothman presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes Cavell's kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.
About the Author:
William Rothman is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Miami. His many books include Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy and Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, Second Edition, both also published by SUNY Press.
See the publisher website: State University of New York Press
> From the same author:
Tuitions and Intuitions (2019)
Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy
Subject: Film Analysis
Looking with Robert Gardner (2016)
Dir. Rebecca Meyers, William Rothman and Charles Warren
Subject: Director > Robert Gardner
Must We Kill the Thing We Love? (2014)
Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Three Documentary Filmmakers (2009)
Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch
Dir. William Rothman
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Reading Cavell's the World Viewed (2000)
A Philosophical Perspective on Film
by Marian Keane and William Rothman
Subject: Theory
Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost (1994)
Dir. Michael Brashinsky, Andrew Horton and William Rothman
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
The Gorgon's Gaze (1991)
German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror
by Paul Coates, William Rothman and Dudley Andrew
> On a related topic:
Thinking Film (2023)
Philosophy at the Movies
Dir. Richard Kearney and M. E. Littlejohn
Subject: Theory
The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema (2022)
Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed
Dir. David LaRocca
Subject: Theory
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