Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018

The world viewed : reflections on the ontology of film / Stanley Cavell. - Enlarged edition - Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1979. - xxv, 253 p. ; 21 cm. - Harvard film studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An autobiography of companions
Sights and sounds
Photograph and screen
Audience, actor, and star
Types; cycles as genres
Ideals of origin
Baudelaire and the myths of film
The military man and the woman
The dandy
End of the myths
The medium and the media of film
The world as mortal: absolute age and youth
The world as a whole: color
Automatism
Excursus: some modernist painting
Exhibition and self-reference
The camera's implication
Assertion in techniques
The acknowledgement of silence

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Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Cine--Filosofía
Cine--Estética

PN 1995 / C378w 1979

791.43/01