Cavell on Film

Stanley Cavell, William Rothman, William Rothman

$310.95 $248.64

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

State University of New York Press
01 March 2025

Film theory & criticism; Philosophy: aesthetics; Popular culture

Series: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.

Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete retrospective of his writings on cinema, which continues to offer inspiration and new directions to the field of film and media studies. The essays and other writings collected here include major theoretical statements and extended critical studies of individual films and filmmakers, as well as occasional pieces, all of which illustrate Cavell's practice of film-philosophy as it developed in the decades following the publication of his landmark work, The World Viewed. This revised edition includes six additional essays, five of them previously unpublished, that illuminate his inspiring vision of a humanistic study rooted in a marriage of film and philosophy. In his introduction and in the preface to this new edition, William Rothman provides an overview of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally.

By: Stanley Cavell
Introduction by: William Rothman
Edited by: William Rothman
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Second Edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9798855801620
Series: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Pages: 514
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition William Rothman Introduction William Rothman 1. What Becomes of Things on Film? (1978) 2. On Makavejev on Bergman (1979) 3. North by Northwest (1981) 4. The Fact of Television (1982) 5. The Thought of Movies (1983) 6. What (Good) Is a Film Museum? What Is a Film Culture? (1983) 7. What Photography Calls Thinking (1985) 8. A Capra Moment (1985) 9. The Fantastic of Philosophy (1986) 10. Two Cheers for Romance (1988) 11. The Advent of Videos (1988) 12. Prénom: Marie (1993) 13. Nothing Goes without Saying: Reading the Marx Brothers (1994) 14. Seasons of Love: Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night and The Winter's Tale (1994) 15. Words of Welcome (1996) 16. Groundhog Day (1996) 17. Something Out of the Ordinary (1996) 18. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting (1998) 19. Concluding Remarks Presented at Paris Colloquium on La Projection du monde (1999) 20. On Eric Rohmer's A Tale of Winter (1999) 21. The Image of the Psychoanalyst in Film (2000) 22. Opera in (and As) Film (2000) 23. Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (2000) 24. The Good of Film (2000) 25. Moral Reasoning: Teaching from the Core (2001) 26. Crossing Paths (2002) 27. After Half a Century (2001) 28. Introducing The Lady Eve (1999) 29. Slapstick without Sticks (2001) 30. Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise (2005) 31. Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) 32. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2006) 33. Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale (2008) Index

William Rothman is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Miami. His many books include The Holiday in His Eye: Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy and Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy, both published by SUNY Press.

Reviews for Cavell on Film

""A perfect stand-alone intro to Cavell's overarching project, namely to transmit his continuously amazed perception that film exists as an instantiation of philosophy itself."" — Film Comment