Mapping the Sensible : : Distribution, Inscription, Cinematic Thinking / / Erica Carter, Eileen Rositzka, Bettina Malcomess.

• VerfasserIn: Carter, Erica,; Malcomess, Bettina,; Rositzka, Eileen,
• MitwirkendeR: Carter, Erica,; Malcomess, Bettina,; Rositzka, Eileen,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cinepoetics Essay , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 157 p.)

In academic and public discourse, 'mapping' has become a ubiquitous term for epistemic practices ranging from surveys of scholarly fields to processes of data collection, ordering and visualization. Mapping captures patterns of distribution, segregation and hierarchy across socio-cultural spaces and geographical territories. Often lost in such accounts, however, is the experiential dimension of mapping as an aesthetic practice with determinate social, cultural and political effects. This volume draws on approaches from film philosophy, media archaeology, decolonial scholarship and independent film practice to explore mapping as a mediated experience in which film becomes entangled in larger processes of historical subject-formation, as well as in dissident reconfigurations of cultural memory. Proposing an approach to mapping through decolonial aesthetics and poetic thinking, the three essays in this volume help define a film studies perspective on mapping as a practice that structures political and aesthetic regimes, organizes and communicates shared realities, but also enables dissenting reconfigurations of concretely experienced worlds.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Mapping the Sensible -- White Bodies in Motion: Mapping Cinema and Whiteness in the Postwar Bahamas -- The Illegible Field: The Journey of a Signal, a Soldier, and a Camera -- A Saturn State of Mind: PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD) -- About the Authors