David LaRocca

David LaRocca, Ph.D. has served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York College at Cortland, Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Cornell University, and Lecturer in Screen Studies in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. He studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and at Harvard, where he was also Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellow in the United Kingdom. Among other books, he is the author of Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, and editor of Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes; The Bloomsbury Anthology of Transcendental Thought; The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman; The Philosophy of War Films; The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth; The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed; Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind. More details at www.davidlarocca.org