The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2006) - Popular American Entertainment and Elightenment: Hitchcock and Cavell
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- article: Popular American Entertainment and Elightenment: Hitchcock and Cavell
- author(s): Richard Allen
- journal: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2006)
- issue: volume 64, issue 1, pages 43-53
- journal ISSN: 0021-8529
- publisher: The American Society for Aesthetics
- keywords: American cinema, Artistic Representation (Imitation), Stanley Cavell, Feature films, Film (International), Film (Productions), Film directors, Mysteries, Performing Arts and Other Disciplines, Philosophers, Philosophy, Relationships, Romance, Alfred Hitchcock
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Abstract
Stanley Cavell's philosophy and Alfred Hitchcock's films share a distinctive feature -- they are both concerned with the relationship between doubt and romance. Allen argues that is precisely because Hitchcock's films share Cavell's concern with the relationship between doubt and romance that they call into question his presupposition of the bond between skepticism and romance, and the manner in which he uses texts to illustrate and illuminate these emotions.
