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Seeing Lucy's perspective : returning to Cavell, Wittgenstein and The awful truth
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Constable, Catherine (2011) Seeing Lucy's perspective : returning to Cavell, Wittgenstein and The awful truth. New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol.9 (No.3). pp. 358-375. doi:10.1080/17400309.2011.585868 ISSN 1740-0309.
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Abstract
This paper addresses two key themes in selected writings of Stanley Cavell: turning and returning, movements that are presented as essential to the processes of philosophising and interpretation, and looking again, which is variously constructed as a Nietzschean perspectival shift or a Wittgensteinian change of aspect. These themes inform Cavell's readings of filmic and philosophical texts and this paper will focus on two: The Awful Truth (McCarey 1937) and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. This is coupled with an analysis of the meta-critical role played by both themes in Cavell's theoretical accounts of interpreting and doing philosophy. I demonstrate that Cavell ultimately overlooks and neglects the perspectival and argue that Nietzsche's model is the most effective one for mapping clashes of interpretation. This involves examining the limited role allocated to the object of desire/interpretation. The paper ends by showing how The Awful Truth reworks elements of Nietzschean perspectivalism, reconfiguring it as a paradigm for the productive inter-relation of philosophical and film texts.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | New Review of Film and Television Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| ISSN: | 1740-0309 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.9 | ||||
| Number: | No.3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 358-375 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17400309.2011.585868 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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