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This book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable thesis that most truly great Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we are that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism.

Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 31/05/2021
      ISBN13: 9781474455718, 978-1474455718
      ISBN10: 1474455719

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable thesis that most truly great Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we are that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism.

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