The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition
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.
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The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition
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.
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The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

by Stanley Cavell
The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

by Stanley Cavell

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674961968
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1979
Series: Harvard Film Studies Series
Edition description: Enlarged Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.75(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Enlarged Edition

Preface

1. An Autobiography of Companions

2. Sights and Sounds

3. Photograph and Screen

4. Audience, Actor, and Star

5. Types; Cycles as Genres

6. Ideas of Origin

7. Baudelaire and the Myths of Film

8. The Military Man and the Woman

9. The Dandy

10. End of the Myths

11. The Medium and Media of Film

12. The World as Mortal: Absolute Age and Youth

13. The World as a Whole: Color

14. Automatism

15. Excursus: Some Modernist Painting

16. Exhibition and Self-Reference

17. The Camera's Implication

18. Assertions in Techniques

19. The Acknowledgment of Silence

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Notes

Index

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