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This course will be devoted to reading Stanley Cavell’s The World Viewed, a book which occupies an influential but anomolous place in both film theory and philosophy. We’ll read some of the film theory on which the book draws, and watch some of the films to which it refers, but most of our time will be spent patiently studying the book itself. In most seminars and in exam preparation one is trained in the necessary skills of reading more, and reading quickly; this seminar, by contrast, will require that you read slowly and intensely. No previous knowledge of film theory is required.