
The Peripatetic Frame
Images of Walking in Film
Thomas Deane Tucker(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 31. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-4744-8772-6 (ISBN)
Description
From cinema's earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of cinema were not only interested in using the camera to scientifically study ambulatory motion, but were also keen to capture the speed and mobile culture of late 19th-century urban life.
Photographers such as Felix Nadar took their cameras into the Parisian streets and boulevards as mechanised flaneurs, ushering us into the age of the 'mobilised virtual gaze'. But if photography could only embalm modernity in an instant of time, the cinema brought these instants to life again.
From Muybridge and Marey's photographic studies of motion to Charlie Chaplin's character 'The Tramp', and from the Steadicam to the police procedural, Thomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking from its very first steps - breaking new ground in motion studies and providing a bold new perspective on film history.
Photographers such as Felix Nadar took their cameras into the Parisian streets and boulevards as mechanised flaneurs, ushering us into the age of the 'mobilised virtual gaze'. But if photography could only embalm modernity in an instant of time, the cinema brought these instants to life again.
From Muybridge and Marey's photographic studies of motion to Charlie Chaplin's character 'The Tramp', and from the Steadicam to the police procedural, Thomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking from its very first steps - breaking new ground in motion studies and providing a bold new perspective on film history.
Reviews / Votes
Thomas Deane Tucker's The Peripatetic Frame offers an erudite historical and theoretical exploration of the fascinating affinities between walking and cinema. Tracking the parallels between cinematic and perambulatory movement in all their philosophical variants, Tucker takes the reader on an invigorating theoretical expedition spanning Chaplin's walk, the camera as pedestrian, to journeying home and cinematic flanerie. -- Prof Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
10 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8772-6 (9781474487726)
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Person
Thomas Deane Tucker is Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College. He is the author of Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction (Lexington Books, 2008) and co-editor of Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy (Continuum, 2011).
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Framing Walking
Chapter 1: First Steps
Chapter 2: Tramping with Chaplin
Chapter 3: The Pedestrian Camera
Chapter 4: Gumshoes
Chapter 5: Homing
Chapter 6: Aimless Walks
Conclusion: Running out of Frames
Bibliography
Filmography
Introduction: Framing Walking
Chapter 1: First Steps
Chapter 2: Tramping with Chaplin
Chapter 3: The Pedestrian Camera
Chapter 4: Gumshoes
Chapter 5: Homing
Chapter 6: Aimless Walks
Conclusion: Running out of Frames
Bibliography
Filmography