Discourse Volume 42, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2020 (Cinema, Modernism, and the Perplexing Methods of Stanley Cavell)
Discourse Volume 42, Numbers 1-2
Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.
Discourse Volume 42, Numbers 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2020)
SPECIAL ISSUE: Cinema, Modernism, and the Perplexing Methods of Stanley Cavell
Edited by Jennifer Fay and Daniel Morgan
Introduction
Jennifer Fay and Daniel Morgan
The World Heard
Kyle Stevens
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Toward a Viable Medium Specificity
Kathleen Kelley
Attending to Film: The World Viewed and Cinematic Political Thinking
Davide Panagia
Must We Mean What We Film? Stanley Cavell and the Candid Camera
Jennifer Fay
When There’s No More Room in Hell, Should We Read Stanley Cavell?
James McFarland
Turning to Nature: Cavell and Experimental Cinema
Dave Burnham
Modernist Investigations: A Reading of The World Viewed
Daniel Morgan
Modernizing the Movie Theater: Review of The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture by Jocelyn J. Szczepaniak-Gillece
Marsha Gordon
Complicating the “Good War”: Review of Destructive Sublime: World War II in American Film and Media by Tanine Allison
Eileen Rositzka
Do Borgesians Dream of Transcendent Totality?: Review of Tar for Mortar: “The Library of Babel” and the Dream of Totality by Jonathan Basile
Sarah Warren
Contributors