Noa Steimatsky

Face on Film

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The human face is a privileged arena of expressivity; yet, this book suggests, cinema's most radical encounters with the face give rise to ambiguity, illegibility--an equivocation between image and language. Braiding theoretical and aesthetic considerations with close analysis of films, Steimatsky interrogates the convergence of archaic powers and modern anxieties in our experience of the face on film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780199863143
• ISBN-10: 0199863148
• Artikelnr.: 47865587

Autorenporträt

Noa Steimatsky is Visiting Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California--Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Face Moving Image
A Dispositif
An Ur-Image
The Face Against the Image
Itineraries
Chapter One: We Had Faces, Then
Expressivity in the 1920s
Joan of Arc, Inevitably
The Face and its Voices
Glamour/Anti-Glamour
Chapter Two: Roland Barthes Looks at the Stars
Towards "Visages et Figures," and circa 1953
Excursus on the Face in Language
Into the Movie Theater
Ultra-Face
Excursus on the Mask
From Cult to Charm: Funny Face
Chapter Three: Face-to-Face (with The Wrong Man)
What Godard Saw
What the Clerk Saw
Excursus on Anthropometrics
Not a Mirror, Not a Lamp
Chapter Four: Pass/Fail: Screen Test, Apparatus, Subject
The Antonioni Screen Test
Excursus on the Portrait
Sitting for the Portrait is the Portrait
Outer and Inner Space, and the Pathos of Time
Fail Better
Chapter Five: In Reticence (Bresson)
The Epidermal and the Written
The Image Against the Face
Not an Open Book, but a Door Ajar
Postface: The Two-Shot