The World Viewed

Reflections on the Ontology of Film

Enlarged Edition

Stanley Cavell

    Foreword to the Enlarged Edition

    Preface

    1. An Autobiography of Companions

    2. Sights and Sounds

    3. Photograph and Screen

    4. Audience, Actor, and Star

    5. Types; Cycles as Genres

    6. Ideas of Origin

    7. Baudelaire and the Myths of Film

    8. The Military Man and the Woman

    9. The Dandy

    10. End of the Myths

    11. The Medium and Media of Film

    12. The World as Mortal: Absolute Age and Youth

    13. The World as a Whole: Color

    14. Automatism

    15. Excursus: Some Modernist Painting

    16. Exhibition and Self-Reference

    17. The Camera's Implication

    18. Assertions in Techniques

    19. The Acknowledgment of Silence

    More of The World Viewed

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: The World Viewed
  • A photo of the author

Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor, Emeritus, of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University.