Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia : Revue publiée par les Sections romane, italienne et anglaise de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Zagreb, Vol. 60 No. -, 2015.

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The Awful Truth: On Metonymic Rationality in Hawks and Cavell

Tatjana Jukić

Sažetak
When Stanley Cavell analyzes Hollywood comedies of remarriage, he mobilizes their
narratives as the platform from which to address America as a political and a philosophical
project.
This
is
also
where
Cavell
acknowledges
the
affinity
of
the
cinematic

narrative
and
psychoanalysis,
most notably
perhaps
in
his
sustained interest
in
the

Hollywood
woman
as
a
spectacle
of
crisis
and
critique.
With
this
in
mind,
I
propose
to

discuss
the Cavellian
woman, of his cinema books, who dominates the “green world”

of
the Hollywood
remarriage comedy: the
bucolic
story-space which
Cavell
associates
with
the
Emersonian
vision
of
America
and
identifies
as
definitive
to
its
critical

character.

I focus however on the comedy in which there seems to be no climactic
green world – Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940) – and argue that Hawks’ woman
mobilizes metropolitan courtrooms and the adjacent spaces in a similar fashion, as if
to suggest that the Emersonian green world is not absent from Hawks’ film but rather
metonymic to the positions America would assign to (pure) reason. Finally, I show
how this Cavellian complex corresponds to Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical fascination
with woman, film and America.

Ključne riječi
Stanley Cavell; Howard Hawks; American cinema; philosophy of film; metonymy

Hrčak ID: 168205

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