Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition (1979) – Cavell is interested in how we experience a film and insists on a sort of starting-over…
Summary of Stanley Cavell’s argument in The World Viewed, taken from Jeffrey Pence, “Cinema of the Sublime,” Poetics Today 25, Vol. 1 (2004), 61-62: “Like [Walter] Benjamin, Cavell insists that to appreciate film’s…
