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Tuitions and Intuitions
(November 2019)
Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy
William Rothman - Author
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Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.
William Rothman has long been considered one of the seminal figures in the field of film-philosophy. From his landmark book Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, now in its second edition, to the essays collected here in Tuitions and Intuitions, Rothman has been guided by two intuitions: first, that his kind of film criticism is philosop...(Read More) |
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Looking with Robert Gardner
(September 2016)
Rebecca Meyers - Editor
William Rothman - Editor
Charles Warren - Editor
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Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner’s achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema.
During his lifetime, Robert Gardner (1925–2014) was often pigeonholed as an ethnographic filmmaker, then criticized for failing to conform to the genre’s conventions—conventions he radically challenged. With the release of his groundbreaking film Dead Bi...(Read More) |
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Hitchcock, Second Edition
(August 2012)
The Murderous Gaze
William Rothman - Author
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An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock’s most heartfelt—and most controversial—film.
First published in 1982, William Rothman’s Hitchcock is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred...(Read More) |
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Three Documentary Filmmakers
(March 2009)
Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch
William Rothman - Editor
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Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.
Film study has tended to treat documentary as a marginal form, but as the essaysin Three Documentary Filmmakers demonstrate, the films of Jean Rouch, Ross McElwee, and Errol Morris call for, and reward, the sort of criticism expected of serious works in any medium....(Read More) |
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Cavell on Film
(May 2005)
William Rothman - Edited and with an introduction by
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Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.
This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of Stanley Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film. Cavell is the only major philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition who has made film a central concern of his work, and his work offers inspiration and new direct...(Read More) |
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