Reading Cavell's the World Viewed,9780814328958

Reading Cavell's the World Viewed

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ISBN13: 9780814328958
ISBN10: 0814328954
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher(s): Wayne State Univ Pr
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Author Biography

William Rothman is a professor of motion pictures and director of the Graduate Program in Film Studies at the University of Miami Marian Keane is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Colorado.

Table of Contents

Preface 9(3)
List of Abbreviations
12(1)
Introduction 13(22)
Reading The World Viewed
The Preface: A Metaphysical Memoir
35(7)
What Is Film?
42(45)
Film's Origins and History
87(40)
The End of the Myths
127(13)
The World as a Whole
140(34)
Automatism
174(22)
Film and Theatricality
196(37)
``The Acknowledgment of Silence''
233(28)
Appendix: Cavell's Philosophical Procedures and Must We Mean What We Say? 261(18)
Notes 279(6)
Index 285

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