Reading Cavell's the World Viewed

Name: Reading Cavell's the World Viewed
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A Philosophical Perspective on Film

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Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

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In their study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books, William Rothman and Marian Keane address this eminent philosopher's many readers, from a variety of disciplines, who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of ""The World Viewed"" within the totality of his writings about film. The authors also reintroduce ""The World Viewed"" to the field of film studies. When the new field entered universities in the late 1960s, it predicated its legitimacy on the conviction that the medium's artistic achievements called for serious criticism and on the corollary conviction that no existing field was capable of the criticism film called for. The study of film needed to found itself, intellectually, upon a philosophical investigation of the conditions of the medium and art of film. Such was the challenge ""The World Viewed"" took upon itself. However, film studies opted to embrace theory as a higher authority than our experiences of movies, divorcing itself from the philosophical perspective of self-reflection apart from which, ""The World Viewed"" teaches, we cannot know what movies mean, or what they are. Rothman and Keane now argue that the poststructuralist theories that dominated film studies for a quarter of a century no longer compel conviction, Cavell's brilliant and beautiful book can provide a sense of liberation to a field that has foresaken its original calling. Read in a way that acknowledges its philosophical achievement, ""The World Viewed"" can show the field a way to move forward by rediscovering its passion for the art of film. The title should be useful to scholars and students of film and philosophy, and to those in other fields, such as literary studies and American studies, who have found Cavell's work provocative and fruitful.

Author Biography:

William Rothman is a professor of motion pictures and director of the Graduate Program in Film Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of the definitive Hitchcock--The Murderous Gaze (Harvard University Press, 1982), The "I" of the Camera: Essays in Film History, Criticism and Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 1989), and Documentary Film Classics (Cambridge University Press, 1998) Marian Keane is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Colorado.

Release date NZ

November 30th, 2000

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

27 illustrations

Pages

320

Series

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Dimensions

152x229x16

ISBN-13

9780814328965

Product ID

6202205

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