Jiri Anger

Towards a Film Theory from Below

Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up
Herausgeber: Herzogenrath, Bernd; Pisters, Patricia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book explores the weird shapes that emerge when material elements interact with figurative content of the moving image. Employing the digitized first Czech films by Jan Krâiézeneckây prompted the questions: is it possible to do film theory from below, from the perspective of a film object? Could we treat accidents in moving images as full-fledged actors with distinctive aesthetic forms and functions? In these films, analog elements impinge upon the form and content of the moving images to create generative figures and shapes. Using digital technology, we can isolate these features and experiment with how they can be reimagined"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9798765107263
• Artikelnr.: 69682511

Autorenporträt

Jiri Anger

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Film Theory from Below?
1. Keep That Image Burning: Color Veil and the Cinema That Never Stops
Ending
2. Do Archivists Dream of Electric Horses?: Static Electricity and the
Quadruple Logic of Indexicality
3. Trembling Meaning: Camera Instability and Transduction in Archival
Moving Images
4. The Milestone That Never Happened: The Scratched Kiss and the Failed
Beginning of Czech Cinema
5. Touching the Film Object with Surgical Gloves: Frankensteinian Frames
and the Fragile Malleability of Cinematic Faces
6. Shaping the Unshapeable?: Videographic Deformation and the First Frames
of Czech Cinema
Conclusion: Digital Krízenecký Off the Scale?
Bibliography
Filmography
Supplements
Index