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Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

Shaw Daniel
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781474455701
Publisert
2019-08-14
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
410 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Shaw Daniel

Biografisk notat

Dan Shaw is a retired professor of philosophy who taught for 32 years at Lock Haven University. He is managing editor of the print journal Film and Philosophy and a member of the Executive Board of the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA).

Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

Shaw Daniel
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Shaw Daniel
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Dan Shaw’s book clarifies Cavell’s positions on perfectionism, individualism, and skepticism by tracing the philosophical influences upon his works. Then, in a real tour de force, Shaw illustrates Cavell’s views on the power and "magic" of movies by applying his philosophical insights to new and intriguing examples of recent films.

- Professor Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston,

Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films goes beyond a mere restatement of Cavell’s discussion of film by applying some of Cavell’s central ideas to such recent films as Boys Don’t Cry (acknowledgment) and Goliath (skepticism). Anyone interested in the relationship of film and philosophy will find a wealth of suggestive ideas in Shaw’s excellent study. Not to be missed!

- Professor Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College,

One of America’s most important contemporary thinkers, Stanley Cavell’s remarkable film philosophy proposed that the greatest Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we really are – a struggle that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism. Focusing on his account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, Dan Shaw draws on Cavell’s theories to interpret a range of classic and contemporary dramas, including Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and The Hurt Locker (2008). Pairing of these analyses with discussions of Cavell’s precursors, including Emerson, Nietzsche and Mill, the book explores a distinctively American philosophical foundation for the study of Hollywood film.
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This book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable thesis that most truly great Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we are that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism.
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Defining The Magic: Why Stanley Cavell? Projecting Reality Stanley Cavell: Emersonian Individualist Cavell on Nietzsche: The Ascetic Ideal, Eternal Recurrence and "Higher Self" Comedies of Remarriage and the Transfiguration of the Commonplace How the Unknown Woman Finds Her Voice in Contesting Tears Cavell and Wittgenstein on Skepticism: Redeeming the Law Heidegger and Cavell and Woody Allen: Another Woman Halls of Montezuma and the Utility of War Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Selma Lockean Liberalism and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Cavell’s Notion of Acknowledgment and Boys Don’t Cry
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Includes extensive quotes from Cavell’s writings

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Dan Shaw’s book clarifies Cavell’s positions on perfectionism, individualism, and skepticism by tracing the philosophical influences upon his works. Then, in a real tour de force, Shaw illustrates Cavell’s views on the power and "magic" of movies by applying his philosophical insights to new and intriguing examples of recent films.

- Professor Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston,

Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films goes beyond a mere restatement of Cavell’s discussion of film by applying some of Cavell’s central ideas to such recent films as Boys Don’t Cry (acknowledgment) and Goliath (skepticism). Anyone interested in the relationship of film and philosophy will find a wealth of suggestive ideas in Shaw’s excellent study. Not to be missed!

- Professor Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College,

One of America’s most important contemporary thinkers, Stanley Cavell’s remarkable film philosophy proposed that the greatest Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we really are – a struggle that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism. Focusing on his account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, Dan Shaw draws on Cavell’s theories to interpret a range of classic and contemporary dramas, including Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and The Hurt Locker (2008). Pairing of these analyses with discussions of Cavell’s precursors, including Emerson, Nietzsche and Mill, the book explores a distinctively American philosophical foundation for the study of Hollywood film.
Les mer
This book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable thesis that most truly great Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we are that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism.
Les mer
Defining The Magic: Why Stanley Cavell? Projecting Reality Stanley Cavell: Emersonian Individualist Cavell on Nietzsche: The Ascetic Ideal, Eternal Recurrence and "Higher Self" Comedies of Remarriage and the Transfiguration of the Commonplace How the Unknown Woman Finds Her Voice in Contesting Tears Cavell and Wittgenstein on Skepticism: Redeeming the Law Heidegger and Cavell and Woody Allen: Another Woman Halls of Montezuma and the Utility of War Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Selma Lockean Liberalism and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Cavell’s Notion of Acknowledgment and Boys Don’t Cry
Les mer
Includes extensive quotes from Cavell’s writings

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474455701
Publisert
2019-08-14
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
410 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Shaw Daniel

Biografisk notat

Dan Shaw is a retired professor of philosophy who taught for 32 years at Lock Haven University. He is managing editor of the print journal Film and Philosophy and a member of the Executive Board of the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA).

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