Indefinite Visions (eBook, PDF)

Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty
Redaktion: Beugnet, Martine; Fetveit, Arild; Cameron, Allan

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Produktbeschreibung

Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not come 'naturally' to the moving image, and if there is one visual effect the eye of the camera can record better than the human eye it is blur. Looking beyond popular media to works of experimental cinema and video art, this groundbreaking collection addresses the aesthetics and politics of moving images in states of decay, distortion, indistinctness and fragmentation. A range of international scholars examines what is at stake in these images' sometimes radical foregrounding of materiality and mediation, or of evanescence and spectrality, as well as their challenging of the dominant position accorded to 'legible' images. How have artists and filmmakers rendered the 'indefinite' image, and what questions does it pose? With a range of approaches, from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies, the authors in this volume investigate techniques, themes and concepts that emerge from this wilful excavation of the moving image's material base.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474407137
• Artikelnr.: 72428648

Autorenporträt

Martine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at the University of Paris 7 Diderot. Allan Cameron Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television at the University of Auckland Arild Fetveit is Associate Professor in the Department for Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen.

Inhaltsangabe

Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty
* Martine Beugnet - Introduction
Illuminations
* Jacques Aumont - The Veiled Image: The Luminous Formless
* Richard Misek - The Black Screen
* Tom Gunning - Flicker and Shutter: Exploring Cinema's Shuddering
Shadow
Definitions
* Martin Jay - Genres of Blur
* Giusy Pisano - In Praise of the Sound Dissolve: Evanescences,
Uncertainties, Fusions, Resonances
* Erika Balsom - 100 Years of Low Definition
Frames
* Michel Chion - Jumps in Scale
* Julian Hanich - Reflecting on Reflections: Complex Mirror Shots in
Films
* Christa Blümlinger - Cinematic Indeterminacy According to Peter
Tscherkassky: Coming Attractions
* Carol Vernallis - Baz Luhrmann's Audiovisual Sublime: Partying in
The Great Gatsby
Temporalities
* D.N.Rodowick - The Force of Small Gestures
* Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli - Bill Viola and the Cinema of Indefinite
Bodily Experience
* Catherine Fowler - Slow Looking: Confronting Moving Images with
Didi-Huberman
Materialities
* Kim Knowles - (Re)visioning Celluloid: Aesthetics of Contact in
Materialist Film
* Emmanuelle André - Seeing through the Fingertips
* Raymond Bellour - Homo Animalis Kino
Glitches
* Sean Cubitt - Temporalities of the Glitch: Déjà Vu
* Steven Shaviro - The Glitch Dimension: Paranormal Activity and the
Technologies of Vision
* Allan Cameron - Facing the Glitch: Abstraction, Abjection and the
Digital Image