Daniel Shaw

Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

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Produktbeschreibung

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. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781474455701
• ISBN-10: 1474455700
• Artikelnr.: 55396059

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defining The Magic: Why Stanley Cavell?
2. Projecting Reality
3. Stanley Cavell: Emersonian Individualist
4. Cavell on Nietzsche: The Ascetic Ideal, Eternal Recurrence and
"Higher Self"
5. Comedies of Remarriage and the Transfiguration of the Commonplace
6. How the Unknown Woman Finds Her Voice in Contesting Tears
7. Cavell and Wittgenstein on Skepticism: Redeeming the Law
8. Heidegger and Cavell and Woody Allen: Another Woman
9. Halls of Montezuma and the Utility of War
10. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Selma
11. Lockean Liberalism and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
12. Cavell's Notion of Acknowledgment and Boys Don't Cry