
The Still/Moving Image
Cinema and the Arts
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 14. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-3-8433-6094-4 (ISBN)
Description
What happens when we suddenly feel that a moving image is being slowed down or halted? Nowadays it happens all the time in the cinema and the art galleries. A basic question of life - is it still or is it moving? - here urgently addresses emotional and aesthetical issues as well as questions concerning media. The still/moving image compels a new sensibility. Eivind Røssaak''s highly original media aesthetic analysis of the arts explores how the malleability of the speeds of motion instantiates odd relationships between different art and media forms. Three works are exemplary: Larry and Andy Wachowski''s The Matrix, Ken Jacobs'' Tom, Tom, the Piper''s Son, and Bill Viola''s The Passions. The last chapter calls for a "Politics of the Slow". This book is part of the emerging still/moving field within the interdisciplinary study of visual culture, cinema, new media and the arts. "The usefulness of this book lies above all in the judicious and felicitous choice of contrasting complementary case studies, each of which is given a highly original historical placement and subjected to a complex and multi-layered historical hermeneutics", Professor Thomas Elsaesser writes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8433-6094-4 (9783843360944)
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Persons
PhD, Associate Professor, Film and New Media, Department of Scholarship and Collections, National Library of Norway, Oslo. The author of several books and articles on film, philosophy, new media and the arts, and editor of The Archive in Motion: New Conceptions (2010) and Between Stillness and Motion: Film, Photography, Algorithms (forthcoming).