The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film Best Read || [Stanley Cavell] - The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, The World Viewed Reflections on the Ontology of Film A philosophical study of popular movies uses the viewer as a point of reference
- Title: The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film
- Author: Stanley Cavell
- ISBN: 9780674961968
- Page: 237
- Format: Paperback
The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film Best Read || [Stanley Cavell], The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed Reflections on the Ontology of Film A philosophical study of popular movies uses the viewer as a point of reference The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film Best Read || [Stanley Cavell] - The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, The World Viewed Reflections on the Ontology of Film A philosophical study of popular movies uses the viewer as a point of reference
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The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film Best Read || [Stanley Cavell]
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I have to emphatically disagree with the reviewer who called this an easy read Sure, Cavell doesn t use the standard theory speak he uses plain English, but he uses it in strange ways He also presumes that the reader possesses not only a thorough familiarity with classic Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood cinema, and the European New Waves of the 1960s, but also a solid grounding in the history of philosophy, Romantic poetry, early photographic history, and the history of modern art from Manet thro [...]
According to Cavell, the material basis of the media of movies is a succession of automatic world projections In More of the World Viewed , he responds to an argument that cites the existence of animated cartoons as a counterexample to this account of the media of movies cartoons are not projections of the real world, and yet they are movies Cavell s response consists of pointing out some relevant differences between movies in his sense and cartoons Here are some selections 1 We are unsure how t [...]
One can have dreams and have hallucinations But it makes no apparent sense of being present at dreams or at hallucinations This suggests why it is wrong to think of movies in terms of dreams or hallucinations.
I picked up this book expecting an examination of film as an art form, possibly reflections on the youth of the genera, its development, and maybe even some historical or technical facts to enlighten the discussion.Instead, I received a somewhat enigmatic, candid, and meandering set of reflections on some elements of the phenomenology of film, with the occasional musing on the ontology of media The reflections call out little commonalities we see through films, often with just a single reference [...]
Gone back and re read chapters on painting, exhibition, color, automatisms, photography and spent time analyzing the philosophy It is a good judge of the weakened state of current artistic endeavors for those who subscribe to views that art is of a historical and social world He attempts to show that modernism has tossed a dark sheet over our heads, preventing us to see the world at it is, but distorted by our human condition Cavell calls to attention that all you have to do to see the world is [...]
Don t know if this ll make any sense, but this was the easiest to read mind baffler I ve ever read For my film and philosophy class, and I ll say this Cavell does use plain language But his points, aims, and arguments are practically incomprehensible, and what s ludicrous is he often admits that.Honestly, I think it s my thin philosophical background that s gave me a hard time here, and I blame that, not Cavell Even so, what I took away from this was minimal.