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Pursuits of Happiness. The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
José Alfredo Peris Cancio,José Sanmartín +1 more
- Iss: 13, pp 237-253
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Cavell realiza una justificación de this agrupamiento (al que califica de “género”), comprende lo que él calificaba como siete obras de arte del Hollywood clásico, a cada una de las cuales dedica un capítulo:Abstract:
Para ponderar adecuadamente esta obra de Stanley Cavell, cuya primera edición data de 1981 (Cavell, 1981), y de la que existe versión española (Cavell, 1999), creemos que conviene afirmar desde el principio que nos encontramos ante un libro de filosofía. Una filosofía que integra en su reflexión de manera principal las llamadas “comedias de rematrimonio de Hollywood”. A tal fin, Cavell realiza una justificación de este agrupamiento (al que califica de “género”), que comprende lo que él califica como siete obras de arte del Hollywood clásico, a cada una de las cuales dedica un capítulo:read more
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Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Noël Carroll,Stanley Cavell +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors discusses the importance of importance of a movie in the context of a conversation with a group of students. But they do not discuss the movie in terms of its content.
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Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
TL;DR: Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these questions in his study of comedies of remarriage, "Pursuits of Happiness" as discussed by the authors, and demonstrated that a contrasting genre, which he called "the melodrama of the unknown woman," shares a surprising number and weave of concerns with those comedies.
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Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary
TL;DR: Cavell's project originated in his interpretation of Austin's and Wittgenstein's ordinary language philosophy and is given unity by an abiding concern with the nature and the varying cultural manifestations of the sceptical impulse in modernity.