Donne di genere: il melodramma filosofico secondo Stanley Cavell

pp: 23 DOI: 10.7371/71471

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The studies about cinematographic genres represent
in many ways
an extension of the literary critics on genres
from Aristotle onwards. This is one of the reasons why a certain tradition of formal analysis on films didnâ€
™
t take them into any account
rather favouring the aesthetic dimension concerning auteur films and the reflection about image. The American scholar Stanley Cavell
although he borrows a set of theoretical tools inherited by classical rhetoric
performs an original philosophical operation
renewing the concept of genre and
above all
providing an innovative reading of the films
with particular reference to the Hollywood of the Thirties and the Forties. Itâ€
™
s in this very cinematographic context that Cavell places the category called Â«the melodrama of the unknown womanÂ»: protagonist is an emblematic typology of woman
a central figure in what can be considered a real philosophy of genres