Indefinite Visions
Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty
Published on 18. July 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-4744-0714-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
30 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
584 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-0714-4 (9781474407144)
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Martine Beugnet | Allan Cameron | Arild Fetveit
Indefinite Visions
Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty
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Persons
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.
Content
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 Bluemlinger?- 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 Andre - Seeing through the Fingertips
Raymond Bellour - Homo Animalis Kino
Glitches
Sean Cubitt - Temporalities of the Glitch: Deja Vu
Steven Shaviro - The Glitch Dimension: Paranormal Activity and the Technologies of Vision
Allan Cameron - Facing the Glitch: Abstraction, Abjection and the Digital Image
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 Bluemlinger?- 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 Andre - Seeing through the Fingertips
Raymond Bellour - Homo Animalis Kino
Glitches
Sean Cubitt - Temporalities of the Glitch: Deja Vu
Steven Shaviro - The Glitch Dimension: Paranormal Activity and the Technologies of Vision
Allan Cameron - Facing the Glitch: Abstraction, Abjection and the Digital Image