Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

Daniel (Retired Professor, Lock Haven University) Shaw

Edinburgh University Press, 2019

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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.

ISBN-13
9781474455701
ISBN-10
1474455700
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2019
Publication date
2019-08-14
Pages
176
Dimensions
162x241x17
Weight
414