Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind

In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavells writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new filmsfrom Hollywood and elsewherethat exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavells film philosophy, we naturally find ourselves contending with it and amending it, as the case may be. Through a series of interpretive vignettes, the group effort situates, for the expert and novitiate alike, how Cavells writing on film can profitably enrich ones experience of cinema generally and also inform how we might continue the practice of serious philosophical criticism of specific films mindful of his sensibility. The resulting conversations between texts, traditions, disciplines, genres, and generations creates propitious conditions for discovering what it means to watch and listen to movies with Stanley Cavell in mind.