The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

by Stanley Cavell

Book Overview

Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films--as well as his fresh look at Godard, Bergman, and other great European directors--will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent people everywhere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067496196X
• ISBN13: 9780674961968
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The bias of prejudice

Cavell relies on his own experience of cinema in such a way that the reader is invited to try to find himself with respect to his claims. There may or may not be a meeting of the minds. But this doesn't mean Cavell is biased. He's simply calling it as he sees it. He asks nothing more and nothing less of us. I don't see that a personal judgment might not be objective. And if it is very difficult to experience what Cavell is gesturing towards, that seems like all the more reason for being cautious when referring to what you might wrongly be calling "subjective prejudices." This book is worth the hard work.