This book offers a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell's celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has b

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—

Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.

One of America's most important contemporary thinkers, Stanley Cavell's remarkable film philosophy proposed that the greatest Hollywood films reflect the strugg

Cavell is read avidly by students of film, television, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom he offers major readings of Thore