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  • Tuitions and Intuitions

    Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy

    by William Rothman ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.William Rothman has long been considered one of the seminal figures in the field of film-philosophy. From his landmark book Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, now in its second edition, to the essays collected here in Tuitions and Intuitions, Rothman has been guided by two intuitions: first, that his kind of film ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Holiday in His Eye

    Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy

    by William Rothman ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell's philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosophers in the United States to ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Must We Kill the Thing We Love?

    Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

    by William Rothman ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock’s work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, Each man kills the thing he loves,” with the quintessentially American philosophy, articulated in Emerson’s writings, that gave classical Hollywood movies of the New Deal era their extraordinary combination of popularity and artistic seriousness. A ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Cavell on Film

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete retrospective of his writings on cinema, which continues to offer inspiration and new directions to the field of film and media studies. The essays and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Looking with Robert Gardner

    Edited by Rebecca Meyers, William Rothman, Charles Warren ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner's achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema.During his lifetime, Robert Gardner (1925–2014) was often pigeonholed as an ethnographic filmmaker, then criticized for failing to conform to the genre's conventions-conventions he radically challenged. With the release of his groundbreaking film Dead ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...
    Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Philosophy of Documentary Film

    by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay, Noël Carroll, Stanley Cavell, Gregory Currie, William Day, Keith Dromm, K. L. Evans, Michael Fried, Elan Gamaker0, Dan Geva1, Tom Gunning2, Werner Herzog3, Selmin Kara4, Scott MacDonald5, Bill Nichols6, Claudia Pederson7, V. F. Perkins8, Vivian Sobchack9, Lars von Trier0, Thomas Vinterberg1, Charles Warren2, Bernadette Wegenstein3, Linda Williams4, Mieke Bal5, Karen D. Hoffman6, Jennifer L. McMahon7, Patricia R. Zimmermann8, Erika9, David LaRocca1, :Prof. Carl Plantinga3, William Rothman4 ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Hitchcock

    The Murderous Gaze

    by William Rothman ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt—and most controversial—film.First published in 1982, William Rothman's Hitchcock is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred images from the films to ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • On Writing Fiction: Rethinking conventional wisdom about the craft

    by David Jauss ...
    Possibilities and Paradoxes in the Craft of Fiction The pieces of a satisfying novel or story seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "how on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices. In On Writing Fiction, award-winning author and respected ... Read more

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  • Themes out of School

    Effects and Causes

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    " Themes out of School . . . cannot help but urge us to think, in fresh and undistracted ways, about the world that actually confronts us." —Jay Parini, Hudson ReviewIn the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ... Read more

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