Preface
1. Cavell Reading Cavell
2. Introduction to Reading Cavell's "The World Viewed" (with Marian Keane)
3. Sights and Sounds (with Marian Keane)
4. The Acknowledgment of Silence (with Marian Keane)
5. Cavell's Philosophy and What Film Studies Calls "Theory"
6. Response to Vivian Sobchack's The Address of the Eye
7. Pursuits of Happiness: Cavell in Transition
8. In Defense of Pursuits of Happiness
9. Viewing the World in Black and White
10. Cavell's Creation
11. Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be
12. Cavell on Film, Television, and Opera (excerpts)
13. Cavell on Film: Introduction
14. The Same Again, Only a Little Different: Cavell's Two Takes on The Philadelphia Story
15. Cavell, Emerson, Hitchcock: Reflections Inspired by Stanley Cavell's Cities of Words
16. On Richard Allen's "Hitchcock and Cavell"
17. Introduction to Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
18. On Stanley Cavell's Band Wagon
19. "Excerpts from Memory": Autobiography, Film, and the Double Existence of Cavell's Philosophical Prose
20. Stanley Cavell, Victor Perkins, and the Personal
Afterword
Works Cited
Index

William Rothman is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Miami. His many books include Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy and Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, Second Edition, both also published by SUNY Press.