Distinguished literary and film theorists convene to engage with Garrett Stewart's twenty books of inter-medial analysis, shelved across several disciplines, in a collection of essays as multifaceted and resonant as Stewart's own writing.

David LaRocca is author, editor, or coeditor of more than a dozen books. He edited Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind (Bloomsbury, 2021), Inheriting Stanley Cavell (Bloomsbury, 2020), a commemorative issue of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies (2019), and Stanley Cavell's Emerson's Transcendental Etudes (2003). He has taught philosophy and cinema and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghampton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Ithaca College, the School of Visual Arts, the State University of New York College at Cortland, and Vanderbilt University.

Introduction: From Bandwidths to Bandschrift
David LaRocca

Part I / Audited Text
1. Voiceover (Herbert F. Tucker, University of Virginia, USA)
Writing the Voice (Garrett Stewart)
2. Stewart-reading: An Art of Attention (Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University, USA)
The Sound of One Hand Raised (Garrett Stewart)
Part II / Close (and Too-Close) Viewing
3. Apparatus and Dispositif: A Three-Dimensional Look at the Cinema Screen (Dudley Andrew, Emeritus, Yale University, USA)
Depth Perception (Garrett Stewart)
4. Hitchcock's Little Mistakes (Dial M for Murder) (D. A. Miller, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
The Man Who Sees Too Much (Garrett Stewart)
Part III / Screen Narratography / Reflex Reading
5. Reading the Voice's Places: Narratography and the Streisand Sound (James Chandler, University of Chicago, USA)
Graphing Voice's S/pace (Garrett Stewart)
6. Reading Itself (William H. Galperin, Emeritus, Rutgers University, USA)
Guilty Pleasures? (Garrett Stewart)
Part IV / Cinemachinations
7. Time, Space, and the Frame: On the Vicissitudes of the Off-Screen (Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago, USA)
Time Pieces (Garrett Stewart)
8. Understanding That Media Understand Media, Or, a Life in the Hall of Cinematic Mirrors (Paul Young, Dartmouth College, USA)
Parallel Homage (Garrett Stewart)
Part V / Cultural Ma(r)kers: immersion and Performance
9. Immersion: The Spectator Gets Into It (Paul H. Fry, Emeritus, Yale University, USA)
Wading In, Weighing In (Garrett Stewart)
10. Two of the Great Italicizers: Barbra Streisand and Elaine May (Ross Posnock, Columbia University, USA)
Diva-gations (Garrett Stewart)
Part VI / Demediation / Transmedium
11. Infratextuality and the Art of Samuel Levi Jones (Bill Brown, University of Chicago, USA)
From Textual Refuse to Conceptual Reuse (Garrett Stewart)
12. Paraphones for Garrett Stewart (John Cayley, Brown University, USA)
Battery Level High: Earphones Recharged (Garrett Stewart)
Part VII / Medium 1.0: Wording the Word
13. Mirror, Mirror (Timothy Gould, Emeritus, Metropolitan State University, USA)
Figuring a Way (Garrett Stewart)

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