Happiness and Tears, After Cavell: New Readings in Hollywood's Comedy of Remarriage and Melodrama of the Unknown Woman - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul Deb (Editor)Series:Suny Series, Horizons of CinemaPublish date:12/1/2025Pages:398
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855804720UPC:9798855804720Book Category:Performing Arts, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Film, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, AestheticsBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.541Product ID:SCMQV8A4X3
Happiness and Tears, After Cavell: New Readings in Hollywood's Comedy of Remarriage and Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Explores contemporary expressions of these two genres, and their continuing relevance, in recent Hollywood films.
Stanley Cavell's influential philosophical work on American cinema concerns itself with the thought that some of the most popular movies of Hollywood's Golden Age constitute two related, but previously undefined, genres that he names "the comedy of remarriage" and "the melodrama of the...
Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855804720UPC:9798855804720Book Category:Performing Arts, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Film, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, AestheticsBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.541Product ID:SCMQV8A4X3
Paul Deb is Research Associate in Philosophy at New College, Oxford.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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