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  • Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind

    Edited by David LaRocca, Sandra Laugier ...
    Series series TV Philosophy
    This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entirety—actors and production included—brings its own intelligence to its realization. In turn, this intelligence educates us as viewers, leading us to recognize and appreciate our individual cinephilic tastes, and to know ourselves and ... Read more

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    Reading Across Media with Garrett Stewart

    Edited by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Distinguished literary and film theorists convene to engage with Garrett Stewart's twenty books of inter-medial analysis, shelved across several disciplines, in a collection of essays as multifaceted and resonant as Stewart's own writing.Critical luminaries from the fields of literary and film studies assess the methods and scope of Garrett Stewart's career-long work across the fields of literary ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • The Geschlecht Complex

    Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology

    Edited by Dr. Oscar Jansson, Dr. David LaRocca ...
    The polysemous German word Geschlecht -- denoting gender, genre, kind, kinship, species, race, and somehow also more -- exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the translational, transdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational structures of the contemporary humanities: What happens when texts, objects, practices, and concepts are transferred or displaced from one language, tradition, ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

    Edited by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Why does Stanley Cavell's philosophical thought matter for music? And how did Cavell's musical practice and appreciation of music give shape to his indelible philosophical claims about cinema, human speech, opera, the expression of skepticism, and ordinary language philosophy?Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind provides a first-of-its-kind intervention by leading philosophers and scholars of music ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Metacinema

    The Form and Content of Filmic Reference and Reflexivity

    Edited by David LaRocca ...
    When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of art—either by reference to itself or to other works—we have become accustomed to calling this move "meta." While scholars and critics have, for decades, acknowledged reflexivity in films, it is only in Metacinema, for the first time, that a group of leading and emerging film theorists join to enthusiastically debate the meanings ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind

    Edited by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell's writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-that exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavell's film philosophy, we naturally find ourselves contending with it and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema

    Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed

    Edited by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Stanley Cavell was, by many accounts, America's greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and Perkins in England, Cavell did not just transform the American capacity to take film as a subject for philosophical criticism; he had to first invent that legitimacy. Part of that effort involved the creation of several key now-canonical texts in film studies, among them the seminal The ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor

    by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally.David LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • A Power to Translate the World

    New Essays on Emerson and International Culture

    Edited by David LaRocca, Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso ...
    This thought-provoking collection gathers a roster of seasoned Emerson scholars to address anew the way non-American writers and texts influenced Emerson, while also discussing the manner in which Emerson’s writings influenced a diverse array of non-American authors. This volume includes new, original, and engaging research on crucial topics that have for the most part been absent from recent ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Inheriting Stanley Cavell

    Memories, Dreams, Reflections

    Edited by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Some of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought. Former students, colleagues, long-time friends, as well as distant admirers, explore moments when their personal experiences of Cavell's singular philosophical and literary ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of War Films

    Edited by David LaRocca ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen.In The Philosophy of War Films, David LaRocca compiles a series of essays by prominent ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman

    Edited by David LaRocca ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    From the Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award-nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is widely admired for his innovative, philosophically resonant films. Although he also began directing with Synecdoche, New York in 2008, most fans and critics refer to "Kaufman films" the way they ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD