Cavells Ontology of Film by Jeroen Gerrits HARDBACK 9781839995149

Anthem Press

Cavell\u2019s Ontology of Film presents ten essays by some of the most prominent international scholars of Stanley Cavell\u2019s work with a double purpose: to look back, half a century after its original publication, at Cavell\u2019s now seminal film-philosophical book The World Viewed (1971, enlarged 1979), and to draw on its concepts to assess the world in the current age of digital media and climate change.\nThe volume opens with a series of essays that revisit Cavell\u2019s discussion of film\u2014crucially including classical Hollywood movies\u2014in the context of modernism. Several authors consider whether this preoccupation with modernism in Cavell\u2019s early work ultimately (and anachronistically) gave way to an embrace of romanticism or whether Cavell conceives these frameworks as offering different responses to\n\nCavell's Ontology of Film\n'The World Viewed' After Half a Century\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery u;