MOVIES WITH STANLEY CAVELL IN MIND (Hardcover)

Foreword The Importance of Stanley Cavell for the Study of Film Sandra Laugier Introduction The Seriousness of Film Sustained David LaRocca I. The Companionship of Film and Philosophy 1. Love and Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows Robert B. Pippin 2. Levinas, Cavell, and the Films of the Dardenne Brothers William Rothman 3. The Specter of the Electronic Screen: Bruno Varela's Reception of Cavell Byron Davies II. Recollecting and Remembering 4. The Pertinence of the Stars: Achieving Mortality in Little Did I Know and Only Angels Have Wings Steven G. Affeldt 5. In Praise of Cinema: Cavell, Arnaud Desplechin, and Telling What Counts in Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse Joseph Mai III. Rethinking Remarriage 6. Morality and Recognition: A Cavellian Reading of Elaine May's A New Leaf Paul Schofield 7. Remarriage Comedy, the Next Generation: The Bold Pursuit of Happiness K. L. Evans IV. The Female Voice Heard Anew 8. Passionate Utterances: Cavell, Film, and the Female Voice Catherine Wheatley 9. Cavell, Altman, Cassavetes: The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman in A Woman Under the Influence and Nashville Charles Warren V. Contending with Conditions, Human and Otherwise 10. Stanley Kubrick and Stanley Cavell: Cinematic Syntax, Avoidance, and Acknowledgment David Mikics 11. The Use and Abuse of Documentary Confessionals: Cavell, Zizek, and the Possibility of Justice in The Unknown Known and The Act of Killing Amir Khan 12. Pursuits of Happiness in the Time of War: On Borhane Alaouie's Beirut: The Encounter Daniele Rugo VI. Visibility, Audibility, and Intelligibility 13. Chantal Akerman and Stanley Cavell: Viewing in La Captive and Reviewing in Moral Perfectionism Kate Rennebohm 14. Contemplating the Sounds of Contemplative Cinema: Stanley Cavell and Kelly Reichardt David LaRocca Acknowledgments Contributors Index