William Rothman is Professor of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami. His previous books include, as author, Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze; as editor, Cavell on Film and Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, and Jean Rouch; and as coeditor, with Rebecca Meyers and Charles Warren, Looking with Robert Gardner, all published by SUNY Press.

"Tuitions and Intuitions is simply indispensable to anyone interested in philosophy and in film as philosophy. This book as a whole expresses and exemplifies moral perfectionism through the exploration of what our self becomes with this experience of cinema." — Sandra Laugier, University Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris"Bringing Rothman's work together highlights patterns and consistent concerns that may not otherwise be obvious to readers. The book will be invaluable to current and future Rothman scholars." — Kyle Stevens, author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: How John the Baptist Kept His Head, or My Life in Film PhilosophyPart I. A Philosophical Perspective 1. Why Not Realize Your World? William Rothman interviewed by Jeffrey Crouse2. Silence and Stasis3. Film and Modernity4. André Bazin as Cavellian Realist5. What Becomes of the Camera in the World on Film?Part II. Studies in Criticism 6. "I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor": John Barrymore in Twentieth Century 7. "I Look Up, I Look Down": James Stewart in Vertigo 8. Hats Off for George Cukor!9. Woody Allen’s New York10. Blood is Thicker than Water: The Family in Hitchcock11. Space and Speech in the Films of Yasujiro¯ Ozu12. Romance, Eroticism, and the Camera’s Gaze in Jean Genet’s Un Chant d’amour 13. Face to Face with Chantal Akerman14. Precious Memories in Philosophy and Film15. Seeing the Light in The Tree of Life 16. A Film That Is Also a Handshake: Philosophy in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers17. Justifying Justified 18. Documentary Film in Boston in the 1970s and 1980s19. Sometimes Daddies Don’t Talk about Things Like That: Ross McElwee’s Bright Leaves 20. Jean Rouch as Film Artist: Turu and Bitti, Funeral at Bongo: The Old Anaï (1848–1972), Ambara Dama 21. Dancing with Gardner: Robert Gardner’s Films on Art22. Dead Birds Re-Encountered: A Journey of ReturnNotesReferencesIndex

William Rothman is Professor of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami. His previous books include, as author, Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze; as editor, Cavell on Film and Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, and Jean Rouch; and as coeditor, with Rebecca Meyers and Charles Warren, Looking with Robert Gardner, all published by SUNY Press.

"Tuitions and Intuitions is simply indispensable to anyone interested in philosophy and in film as philosophy. This book as a whole expresses and exemplifies moral perfectionism through the exploration of what our self becomes with this experience of cinema." — Sandra Laugier, University Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris"Bringing Rothman's work together highlights patterns and consistent concerns that may not otherwise be obvious to readers. The book will be invaluable to current and future Rothman scholars." — Kyle Stevens, author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: How John the Baptist Kept His Head, or My Life in Film PhilosophyPart I. A Philosophical Perspective 1. Why Not Realize Your World? William Rothman interviewed by Jeffrey Crouse2. Silence and Stasis3. Film and Modernity4. André Bazin as Cavellian Realist5. What Becomes of the Camera in the World on Film?Part II. Studies in Criticism 6. "I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor": John Barrymore in Twentieth Century 7. "I Look Up, I Look Down": James Stewart in Vertigo 8. Hats Off for George Cukor!9. Woody Allen’s New York10. Blood is Thicker than Water: The Family in Hitchcock11. Space and Speech in the Films of Yasujiro¯ Ozu12. Romance, Eroticism, and the Camera’s Gaze in Jean Genet’s Un Chant d’amour 13. Face to Face with Chantal Akerman14. Precious Memories in Philosophy and Film15. Seeing the Light in The Tree of Life 16. A Film That Is Also a Handshake: Philosophy in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers17. Justifying Justified 18. Documentary Film in Boston in the 1970s and 1980s19. Sometimes Daddies Don’t Talk about Things Like That: Ross McElwee’s Bright Leaves 20. Jean Rouch as Film Artist: Turu and Bitti, Funeral at Bongo: The Old Anaï (1848–1972), Ambara Dama 21. Dancing with Gardner: Robert Gardner’s Films on Art22. Dead Birds Re-Encountered: A Journey of ReturnNotesReferencesIndex

William Rothman is Professor of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami. His previous books include, as author, Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze; as editor, Cavell on Film and Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, and Jean Rouch; and as coeditor, with Rebecca Meyers and Charles Warren, Looking with Robert Gardner, all published by SUNY Press.

"Tuitions and Intuitions is simply indispensable to anyone interested in philosophy and in film as philosophy. This book as a whole expresses and exemplifies moral perfectionism through the exploration of what our self becomes with this experience of cinema." — Sandra Laugier, University Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris"Bringing Rothman's work together highlights patterns and consistent concerns that may not otherwise be obvious to readers. The book will be invaluable to current and future Rothman scholars." — Kyle Stevens, author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: How John the Baptist Kept His Head, or My Life in Film PhilosophyPart I. A Philosophical Perspective 1. Why Not Realize Your World? William Rothman interviewed by Jeffrey Crouse2. Silence and Stasis3. Film and Modernity4. André Bazin as Cavellian Realist5. What Becomes of the Camera in the World on Film?Part II. Studies in Criticism 6. "I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor": John Barrymore in Twentieth Century 7. "I Look Up, I Look Down": James Stewart in Vertigo 8. Hats Off for George Cukor!9. Woody Allen’s New York10. Blood is Thicker than Water: The Family in Hitchcock11. Space and Speech in the Films of Yasujiro¯ Ozu12. Romance, Eroticism, and the Camera’s Gaze in Jean Genet’s Un Chant d’amour 13. Face to Face with Chantal Akerman14. Precious Memories in Philosophy and Film15. Seeing the Light in The Tree of Life 16. A Film That Is Also a Handshake: Philosophy in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers17. Justifying Justified 18. Documentary Film in Boston in the 1970s and 1980s19. Sometimes Daddies Don’t Talk about Things Like That: Ross McElwee’s Bright Leaves 20. Jean Rouch as Film Artist: Turu and Bitti, Funeral at Bongo: The Old Anaï (1848–1972), Ambara Dama 21. Dancing with Gardner: Robert Gardner’s Films on Art22. Dead Birds Re-Encountered: A Journey of ReturnNotesReferencesIndex