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Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films
Daniel Shaw
Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films
Daniel Shaw
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 |