Moonstruck, or how to ruin everything

Philosophy and Literature 19 (2):292-307 (1995)
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Abstract

A reading of the film Moonstruck (1987) is presented in two movements. The first aligns Moonstruck with certain Hollywood film comedies of the 1930s and 40s, those Stanley Cavell calls comedies of remarriage. The second turns to some aspects of Emerson's writing – in particular his interest in our relation to human greatness, and his coinciding interest in our relation to the words of a text – and shows how Moonstruck inherits these Emersonian, essentially philosophical interests.

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reprint Day, William (2003) "Moonstruck, or How to Ruin Everything". In Dauber, Kenneth, Jost, Walter, Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein, pp. 315-328: (2003)

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