Stanley Cavell And The Magic Of Hollywood Films

This book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable thesis that most truly great Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we are that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism.

• | Author: Daniel Shaw
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 14, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1474455700
• | ISBN-13: 9781474455701