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Stanley Cavell was, by many accounts, America's greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and Perkins in England, Cavell did not just transform the American capacity to take film as a subject for philosophical criticism; he had to first invent that legitimacy. Part of that effort involved the creation of several key now-canonical texts in film studies, among them the seminal The World Viewed along with Pursuits of Happiness and Contesting Tears. The present collection offers,

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Author

David LaRocca (editor)

Publisher

Bloomsbury USA Academic

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501349171

Category

philosophy

Subjects

History, Performing Arts, Sports

Updated

2026-03-25