Cinema, democracy and perfectionism (eBook, ePUB)

Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue
Redaktion: Dienstag, Joshua Foa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. In this debate, Dienstag mirrors the celebrated dialogue between Rousseau and Jean D'Alembert on theatre, casting Cavell as D'Alembert in his view that we can learn to become better citizens and better people by observing a staged representation of human life, with Dienstag arguing, with Rousseau, that this misunderstands the relationship between original and copy, even more so in the medium of film than in the medium of theatre. Dienstag's provocative and stylish essay is debated by an exceptional group of interlocutors comprising Clare Woodford, Tracy B. Strong, Margaret Kohn, Davide Panagia and Thomas Dumm. The volume closes with a robust response from Dienstag to his critics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784997793
• Artikelnr.: 55000508

Autorenporträt

Joshua Foa Dienstag is Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at University of California Los Angeles

Inhaltsangabe

Series editors' foreword Part I: Lead essay 1. The tragedy of remarriage: letter to M. Cavell about cinema (a remake)
Joshua Foa Dienstag Part II: Responses 2. Emancipated perfectionism
or, in praise of dreaming
Clare Woodford 3. The phenomenology of the political: a reply from Saturday Night to Mr. Dienstag
Tracy B. Strong 4. The tragedy of remarriage in the golden age of television
Margaret Kohn 5. 'That dangerous contention': a cinematic response to pessimism
Davide Panagia 6. Letter to Mr. Dienstag
Thomas Dumm Part III: Reply 7. A reply to my critics
Joshua Foa Dienstag Index