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Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy
In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who
have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell's
writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us
read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-that exist beyond his
immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavell's
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 Cavell's writing on film can profitably enrich one's
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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