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  1. Stanley Cavell on the Magic of the Movies.Daniel Shaw - 2017 - Film-Philosophy 21 (1):114-132.
    In order to explain Cavell's account of what makes movies so magical, this article will offer a chronological survey of his major writings on film, beginning with the first edition of The World Viewed (1971), where he poses an intriguing theoretical hypothesis about what distinguishes the movies from the other major art forms. The survey will continue by considering the expanded edition of The World Viewed (1979), Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1984), and Contesting Tears: The Hollywood (...)
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  • Realism and anti-realism in film theory.Martin Seel - 2008 - Critical Horizons 9 (2):157-175.
    This essay argues that film as a medium breaks through the clearly delineated boundaries between realism and anti-realism that have been established by film theory. Film itself is basically indifferent to each. As an alternative to both, I put forward a thesis of indeterminism, which argues that films engender a unique event of sight and sound that does not have to be perceived to be a real event or an illusion of such an event.
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  • Why film matters to political theory.Davide Panagia - 2013 - Contemporary Political Theory 12 (1):2-25.
    In this article, I claim that film matters to political theory not because of the stories films recount, but because the medium of film offers political theorists an image of political thinking that emphasizes the stochastic serialization of actions. I thus argue that the stochastic serialization of moving images that films project makes available for democratic theory an experience of resistance and change as a felt discontinuity of succession, rather than as an inversion of hierarchical power. In my treatment of (...)
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  • Rothman and the Challenge of Critical Realism.Gary MacLennan - 1997 - Film-Philosophy 1 (1).
    on Documentary Film Classics by William Rothman.
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  • Small Talk and the Cinema: Conversation, Philosophy and the Case of Sullivan's Travels.Cooper Long - 2018 - Film-Philosophy 22 (1):76-94.
    This article seeks to bring small talk about cinema – the type of conversation that can begin with the question “Have you seen any good movies lately?” – into the analytical ambit of cinema and media studies. In order to do so, I argue that such conversation is relevant to the philosophical project of Stanley Cavell. Throughout his attempts to wed film analysis and philosophical reflection, including his seminal studies of Hollywood genres, Cavell has remained committed to the idea that (...)
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  • This Is Us: Wittgenstein and the Social.Sandra Laugier - 2018 - Philosophical Investigations 41 (2):204-222.
    This paper aims at elucidating the present strength of the social and political ideas one can draw from Wittgenstein’ later work, rooting in it his conception of the subjectivity of language and of the speakers’ authority and voice; of the I and the us. The article uses the concept of forms of life – understood, following Stanley Cavell and Veena Das, not only in the social sense but also in the natural sense, as life forms. – in order to rearticulate (...)
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  • Creeping, Drinking, Dying: The Cinematic Portal and the Microscopic World of the Twentieth-Century Cell.Hannah Landecker - 2011 - Science in Context 24 (3):381-416.
    ArgumentFilm scholars have long posed the question of the specificity of the film medium and the apparatus of cinema, asking what is unique to cinema, how it constrains and enables filmmakers and audiences in particular ways that other media do not. This question has rarely been considered in relation to scientific film, and here it is posed within the specific context of cell biology: What does the use of time-based media such as film coupled with the microscope allow scientists to (...)
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  • Memories of the Unlived Body: Jean-Louis Schefer, Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze.Patrick Ffrench - 2017 - Film-Philosophy 21 (2):161-187.
    Jean-Louis Schefer's newly translated The Ordinary Man of Cinema, originally published in 1980, proposes a singular account of the experience of cinema which departs from the principal tendencies of film theory. It has nevertheless had a profound if somewhat invisible influence in film philosophy and theory since its publication, notably in the work of Gilles Deleuze. This essay proposes a synthetic discussion of Schefer's work on film up to The Ordinary Man, arguing that Schefer's work, which draws on his earlier (...)
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  • Acknowledgment - No Knowledge Without It: Introduction to William Rothman and his Work.Alan Cholodenko - 2014 - Film-Philosophy 18 (1):1-8.
    Introduction to William Rothman by Alan Cholodenko in the Special Section of Film-Philosophy on Stanley Cavell.
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