Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 259 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781628922387
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9781628922400
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9781501304552
Series Statement:
Thinking cinema volume 10
Content:
"In the beginning, cinema was an encounter between humans, images and machine technology, revealing a stream of staccato gestures, micrographic worlds, and landscapes seen from above and below. In this sense, cinema's potency was its ability to bring other, non-human modes of being into view, to forge an encounter between multiple realities that nonetheless co-exist. Yet the story of cinema became (through its institutionalization) one in which the human swiftly assumed centrality through the literary crafting of story, character and the expression of interiority. Ex-centric Cinema takes an archaeological approach to the study of cinema through the writings of philosopher Giorgio Agamben, arguing that whilst we have a century-long tradition of cinema, the possibility of what cinema may have become is not lost, but co-exists in the present as an unexcavated potential. The term given to this history is ex-centric cinema, describing a centre-less moving image culture where animals, children, ghosts and machines are privileged vectors, where film is always an incomplete project, and where audiences are a coming community of ephemeral connections and links. Discussing such filmmakers as Harun Farocki, the Lumiere Brothers, Guy Debord and Wong Kar-wai, Janet Harbord draws connections with Agamben to propose a radically different way of thinking about cinema. "...
Note:
Enthält Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-6289-2242-4
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-6289-2241-7
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-1-62892-242-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Agamben, Giorgio 1942-
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Film
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Ästhetik
DOI:
10.5040/9781501304552
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