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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…
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David Larocca
In Werner Herzog / Rogue Filmmaker, David LaRocca draws from a fan's resolute passion for his subject to face head-on vexing Herzogian notions such as ecstatic truth, the sublime, and…
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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…
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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…
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Attention Spans' chronological review of Garrett Stewart's critical approach tracks and maps the evolution of intersecting disciplines from late New Criticism through structuralism, deconstruction, narrative theory (by way of narratography)…
In ten new essays on a selection of vital canonical films, contributors chart, explore, and advance the ways in which metacinema is at once a mode of filmmaking and a…
To many, Kentucky means the greatest thoroughbreds in the world. From the perfect mint julep to benedictine, from a classic hot brown to cheese chutney, Kentucky’s Best captures the full…
This edited volume brings together nineteen chapters that provide an up-to-date, original exploration of David Lynch's entire thought-provoking oeuvre. This includes analyses of his shorts and films, as well as…
What is real? What is the relationship between ideas and objects in the world? Is God a concept or a being? Is reality a creation of the mind or a…
Accomplished scholars and writers-some of them lifelong friends, students, and colleagues, others strangers and skeptical critics of Stanley Cavell-think and re-think the nature of their personal, impersonal (and our collective)…
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…
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…
A collection of over 170 years of dynamic, profound, and enduring criticism on Emerson by some of world’s most eminent and influential writers and thinkers.
Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)
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…
The first book devoted exclusively to how Stanley Cavell's thoughts about film apply to television. In a dozen chapters, a number of acknowledged critics and philosophers articulate how Cavell's remarks…
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), writer Charlie Kaufman is widely admired…
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…
In The Philosophy of War Films, David LaRocca compiles a series of essays by prominent scholars that examine the impact of representing war in film and the influence that cinematic…
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The Philosophy of War Films is a timely and engaging read for any philosopher, filmmaker, reader, or viewer who desires a deeper understanding of war and its representation in popular…
David LaRocca,Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso,Ricardo Miguel-alfonso
The impact of global thinkers on Emerson; Emerson’s impact on global thought
Leslie Barnes,Joseph Mai
Rithy Panh, a survivor of Cambodia’s civil war and the Khmer Rouge regime, has earned a world-wide reputation for his innovative work in both fiction and documentary film. Bringing together…
This edited collection contains eighteen interdisciplinary chapters and is organized into three sections that center on Zemeckis’ directorial and artistic choices, the philosophical issues expressed in his oeuvre, and the…
This comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of Steven Spielberg is written by some of the top scholars working in fields ranging from philosophy and art to history and…
This collection presents comprehensive, unique scholarly analyses of Terrence Malick’s films through the lenses of philosophy, poetry, cinema, and theology.
Perhaps nowhere in the broad expanse of types of film is the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry more evident-and also more vitally relevant-than in the genre or mode of…
Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. This essay collection by professional philosophers and film theorists from around the globe offers a…
