Between Stillness and Motion: Film, Photography, Algorithms (Film Culture in Transition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089642129 ISBN 13: 9789089642127

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2014

Synopsis

New technological media such as film, photography and computers have altered the way we perceive possible relations between stillness and motion in the visual arts. Traditionally, cinema theory saw cinema and especially the 'illusion of motion' as part of the ideological swindle of the basic cinematic apparatus. This collection of essays by acclaimed international scholars including Tom Gunning, Thomas Elsaesser, Mark B.N. Hansen, George Baker, Ina Blom and Christa Blümlinger, starts out from a different premise to analyse stillness and motion as part of a larger ecology of images and media. They argue that the strategic uses of stillness and motion in art and entertainment since the 1850s illuminate and renegotiate urgent issues within both aesthetics, film, art and media history on the one hand, and, on the other, new perspectives on affects, memories and the contemporary patterns of communication and image circulation.

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From the Back Cover

Paperback versie, hardback verkrijgbaar onder het ISBN 9789089642134 Het in de jaren zeventig opkomende debat binnen de filmwetenschappen over stilstaand ('still') tegenover bewegend beeld ('moving') werd gevoed door de 'apparatus theory' en het idee van verstilde beweging door belichting. Filmische beweging was een illusie, luidde het axioma; bewe

About the Author

Eivind R ssaak, PhD, is Associate Professor Film and Media Studies, Department of Scholarship and Collections, National Library of Norway, Oslo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9089642129
• ISBN 13: 9789089642127
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Rossaak Eivind