Cavell on Film
by Stanley Cavell and William Rothman
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Book Presentation:
Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.
This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of Stanley Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film. Cavell is the only major philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition who has made film a central concern of his work, and his work offers inspiration and new directions to the field of film studies. The essays and other writings in this volume, presented in the order of their composition, range from major theoretical statements and extended critical studies of individual films or filmmakers to occasional pieces, all of which illuminate Cavell's practice of philosophy as it has developed in the more than three decades since the publication of The World Viewed. All periods of Cavell's career are represented, from the 1970s to the present, and the book includes many previously unpublished essays written since the early 1990s. In his introduction, William Rothman provides a useful and eloquent overview of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally.
About the authors:
Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. His most recent book is Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life.
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Newer edition
Cavell on Film (2025)
by Stanley Cavell and William Rothman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Theory
> From the same authors:
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
Happiness and Tears, After Cavell (2025)
New Readings in Hollywood's Comedy of Remarriage and Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Dir. Paul Deb
Subject: Sociology
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