Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind

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In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavells writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new filmsfrom Hollywood and elsewherethat exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavells film philosophy, we naturally find ourselves contending with it and amending it, as the case may be. Through a series of interpretive vignettes, the group effort situates, for the expert and novitiate alike, how Cavells writing on film can profitably enrich ones experience of cinema generally and also inform how we might continue the practice of serious philosophical criticism of specific films mindful of his sensibility. The resulting conversations between texts, traditions, disciplines, genres, and generations creates propitious conditions for discovering what it means to watch and listen to movies with Stanley Cavell in mind.

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This volume pushes Cavellian scholarship forward, showing that the value of Cavells work lies not simply in understanding it but in applying it. By extending the philosophers methods to an exciting range of international and contemporary films, the chapters compose a timely consideration on what it is to read a film, and to read a film generously. * Kyle Stevens, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Appalachian State University, USA *
Stanley Cavell is, to my mind, the best thinker for helping us account for the power of the film experience, and the fourteen chapters collected here provide ample reason for understanding the importance of Cavell for the study of film. All of the contributors to this wonderful, collective enterprisebrought together by David LaRoccahave in a similar way encountered him and his work. Whether they are revisiting films Cavell loved or taking up the invitation to explore new films, they reveal the importance of Cavells writing and method. * Sandra Laugier, Professor of Philosophy, Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, France *

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DAVID LAROCCA is the author, editor, or coeditor of a dozen books. He edited The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema, a commemorative issue of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, Inheriting Stanley Cavell, and Stanley Cavells Emersons Transcendental Etudes. He has taught philosophy and cinema and held visiting research and teaching positions at Binghamton, Cornell, Cortland, Harvard, Ithaca College, the School of Visual Arts, and Vanderbilt. www.DavidLaRocca.org