Haunting the World : Essays on Film After Perkins and Cavell

State University of New York Press

Haunting the WorldEssays on Film After Perkins and Cavell\nAuthor(s): Dominic Lash\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855803105, 979-8855803105\nSynopsis\nArgues that the experience of the ordinary film viewer and the investigations of the film scholar or film philosopher are not necessarily so far apart.\n\nIn Haunting the World, Dominic Lash tries to show that taking films seriously in no way interferes with the pleasure we get from watching them. The book draws its title from the philosopher Stanley Cavell, who saw \""haunting the world\"" as something we are all prone to and who claimed that cinema's relationship with this tendency is both an \""importance\"" and a \""danger\"" of film. Specifically, Lash proposes that the work of Cavell and of the critic and scholar V. F. Perkins have valuable lessons to offer contemporary film studies, some of which are in danger of being neglected.