Television with Stanley Cavell in mind / / edited by David LaRocca and Sandra Laugier.

This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entirety-actors and production included-brings its own intelligence to its realization. In turn, this intelligence educates us as viewers, l...

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Superior document:TV serials magazine
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Place / Publishing House:Exeter, England : : University of Exeter Press,, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:TV serials magazine.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: The Fact and Fiction of Television: Stanley Cavell and the Terms of Television Philosophy DAVID LaROCCA and SANDRA LAUGIER
  • PART I: NEW TELEVISION
  • 1 Justifying Justified WILLIAM ROTHMAN
  • 2 'You Get Paid for Pain': Kingdom and New Television MARTIN SHUSTER
  • 3 To See and to Stop: The Problem of Abdication in Succession ELISABETH BRONFEN
  • 4 When TV is on TV: Metatelevision and the Art of Watching TV with the Royal Family in The Crown DAVID LaROCCA
  • PART II: BIG PERFECTIONISM ON THE SMALL SCREEN
  • 5 It's My Party and I'll Die Even If I Don't Want To: Repetition, Acknowledgment, and Cavellian Perfectionism in Russian Doll MICHELLE DEVEREAUX
  • 6 'Nobody's Perfect': Moral Imperfectionism in Ozark HENT de VRIES
  • 7 A Zigzag of a Hundred Tacks: Narrative Complexity in The Good Place CATHERINE WHEATLEY
  • 8 Im/Moral Perfectionism: On TV's Two Worlds JEROEN GERRITS
  • PART III: EVERYDAY EDUCATION
  • 9 The Sublime and the American Dream in Fargo HUGO CLÉMOT
  • 10 TV Time, Recurrence, and the Situation of the Spectator: An Approach via Stanley Cavell, Raúl Ruiz, and Ruiz's Late Chilean Series Litoral (2008) BYRON DAVIES
  • 11 Education about Trust in Homeland THIBAUT de SAINT MAURICE
  • 12 Small Acts PAUL STANDISH
  • PART IV: POPULAR TV AND ITS GENRES
  • 13 The Event of Television: Sitcoms, Superheroes, and WandaVision STEPHEN MULHALL
  • 14 Love, Remarriage, and The Americans SANDRA LAUGIER
  • 15 True Detective: Existential Scepticism and Television Crime Drama ROBERT SINNERBRINK
  • Index.