In Broad Daylight
Movies and Spectators After the Cinema
2nd Edition
Published on 6. June 2012
182 pages
978-1-78168-400-9 (ISBN)
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From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics, exploring the metamorphosis of films in the age of individual media, when the public is increasingly free but also increasingly resistant to the emotive force of the pictures flashing around us. Moving deftly from philosophy of mind to film theory, from architectural practice to ethics, from Leon Battista Alberti to Orson Welles, Gabriele Pedull¿ examines the revolution that is reshaping the entire system of the arts and creativity in all its manifestations.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-400-9 (9781781684009)
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Gabriele Pedull¿ (Rome, 1972) is professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Rome 3 and visiting professor at Stanford. His books include a biography of the partisan-writer Beppe Fenoglio, a monograph on Machiavelli's theory of conflict, a co-edited three volume Atlas of Italian Literature and a best-selling anthology of partisan short stories, Racconti della Resistenza. For his first book of fiction, the prize-winning collection of short stories, Lo spagnolo senza sforzo (Spanish Made Simple) he was selected as one of the 10 best Italian writers under 40 by the literary supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 The Cave and the Mirror
- 2 Toward the Dark Cube
- 3 Vitruvius's Sons
- 4 The Age of Freedom
- 5 The Aesthetic of the Shark
- 6 Desdemona Must Die
- 7 Low-Impact Catharsis
- Bibliographical Note
- Index
