Noa Steimatsky

The Face on Film (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The human face was said to be rediscovered with the advent of motion pictures, in which it is often viewed as expressive locus, as figure, and even as essence of the cinema. But how has the modern, technological, mass-circulating art revealed the face in ways that are also distinct from any other medium? How has it altered our perception of this quintessential incarnation of the person? The archaic powers of masks and icons, the fashioning of the individual in the humanist portrait, the modernist anxieties of fragmentation and de-figuration--these are among the cultural precedents informing our experience in the movie theatre. Yet the moving image also offers radical new confrontations with the face: Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, Donen's Funny Face, Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, Bresson's enigmatic Au hasard Balthazar, Antonioni's Screen Test, Warhol's filmic portraits of celebrity and anonymity are among the key works explored in this book. In different ways these intense encounters manifest a desire for transparency and plenitude, but--especially in post-classical cinema--they also betray a profound ambiguity that haunts the human countenance as it wavers between image and language, between what we see and what we know. The spectacular impact of the cinematic face is uncannily bound up with an opacity, a reticence. But is it not for this very reason that, like faces in the world, it still enthralls us?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199863150
• Artikelnr.: 48795730

Autorenporträt

Noa Steimatsky is a film scholar who lives and writes in San Francisco. She teaches 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