Indefinite Visions : : Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty /

Indefinite Visions : : Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty / / Arild Fetveit, Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron.

Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving imagesAudiovisual culture often privileges the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet order and clarity do not come 'naturally' to th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Beugnet, Martine,
Cameron, Allan,
Fetveit, Arild,
MitwirkendeR:
André, Emmanuelle,
Aumont, Jacques,
Balsom, Erika,
Bellour, Raymond,
Beugnet, Martine,
Blümlinger, Christa,
Cameron, Allan,
Chion, Michel,
Cubitt, Sean,
Fowler, Catherine,
Gunning, Tom,
Hanich, Julian,
Jay, Martin,
Knowles, Kim,
Misek, Richard,
Pisano, Giusy,
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss,
Rodowick, D. N.,
Shaviro, Steven,
Vernallis, Carol,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality : ESFI
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 30 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Illuminations
  • 1. The Veiled Image: The Luminous Formless
  • 2. The Black Screen
  • 3. Flicker and Shutter: Exploring Cinema’s Shuddering Shadow
  • Definitions
  • 4. One Hundred Years of Low Definition
  • 5. Genres of Blur
  • 6. In Praise of the Sound Dissolve: Evanescences, Uncertainties, Fusions, Resonances
  • Frames
  • 7. Jumps in Scale
  • 8. Reflecting on Reflections: Cinema’s Complex Mirror Shots
  • 9. Cinematic Indeterminacy According to Peter Tscherkassky: Coming Attractions
  • 10. Partying in The Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann’s Audiovisual Sublime
  • Temporalities
  • 11. The Force of Small Gestures
  • 12. Bill Viola and the Cinema of Indefinite Bodily Experience
  • 13. Slow Looking: Confronting Moving Images with Georges Didi-Huberman
  • Materialities
  • 14. (Re)visioning Celluloid: Aesthetics of Contact in Materialist Film
  • 15. Seeing through the Fingertips
  • 16. Homo Animalis Kino
  • 17. Temporalities of the Glitch: Déjà Vu
  • 18. The Glitch Dimension: Paranormal Activity and the Technologies of Vision
  • 19. Facing the Glitch: Abstraction, Abjection and the Digital Image
  • Index

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