Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films - Daniel Shaw - Books - Edinburgh University Press - 9781474455701 - August 31, 2019
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Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

Daniel Shaw

Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

This book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable thesis that most truly great Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we are that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism.


192 pages, 20 B/W illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 31, 2019
ISBN13 9781474455701
Publishers Edinburgh University Press
Pages 192
Dimensions 241 × 162 × 17 mm   ·   414 g

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