Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema

David LaRocca is the author, editor, or coeditor of more than a dozen books. He edited Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind (Bloomsbury, 2021), Inheriting Stanley Cavell (Bloomsbury, 2020), a commemorative issue of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies (2019), and Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes (2003). He has taught philosophy and cinema and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghamton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Ithaca College, the School of Visual Arts, the State University of New York College at Cortland, and Vanderbilt University.

• Preface: Stanley Cavell and CinemaThomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsIntroduction: Philosophy’s Claim to Film, Film’s Claim to Philosophy David LaRocca, Cornell University, USAPart I. Underwriting and Overhearing: Reconceiving Cinematic Ontology and Genre1. “Assertions in Technique”: Tracking the Medial “Thread” in Cavell’s Filmic OntologyGarrett Stewart, University of Iowa, USA2. Revisiting The World ViewedNoël Carroll, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA3. The World HeardKyle Stevens, Appalachian State University, USA4. What a Genre of Film Might Be: Medium, Myth, and Morality Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford University, UKPart II. Interlude: Temperaments for Film5. My Troubled Relationship with Stanley Cavell: In Pursuit of a Truly Cinematic Conversation Scott MacDonald, Hamilton College, USA6. Film as Film and the Personal William Rothman, University of Miami, USAPart III. Philosophy, as if Made for Film7. Between Skepticism and Perfectionism: On Cavell’s Melodrama of the Unknown WomanRobert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University, Australia8. Overcoming Skepticism in CasablancaThomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College, USA9. A Skeptic’s Reprieve: Cavell on Comedy in Shakespeare and the Movies Lawrence F. Rhu, University of South Carolina, USAPart IV. Film, as if Made for Philosophy10. Film Exists in a State of Philosophy: Two Contemporary Cavellian Views Shawn Loht, Baton Rouge Community College, USA11. The Conception of Film for the Subject of Television: Moral Education of the Public and a Return to an Aesthetics of the OrdinarySandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France12. On Film in Reality: Cavellian Reflections on Skepticism, Belief, and DocumentaryMathew Abbott, Federation University, Australia13. On the Aesthetics of Amateur Filmmaking in Narrative Cinema: Negotiating Home Movies after Adam’s RibDavid LaRocca, Cornell University, USAAcknowledgementsIndexContributors

[The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema] will be valuable to those interested in philosophy, film studies, literature, and US culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.