Locating the Moving Image
Title | Locating the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Hallam |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2013-11-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0253011124 |
Essays exploring the methodologies used by film scholars to develop a spatial history of the moving image. Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial enterprise, as a leisure activity, and as modes of expression and communication. Their research charts new pathways in mapping the relationship between film production and local film practices, theatrical exhibition circuits and cinema going, creating new forms of spatial anthropology. Topics include cinematic practices in rural and urban communities, development of cinema by amateur filmmakers, and use of GIS in mapping the spatial development of film production and cinema going as social practices. “Introduces some of the concrete ways practical mapping and GIS technologies help elaborate historical film projects. . . . The scope of many of these projects is breathtaking in scale. . . . Others embrace ethnographic methods that tell poignant individual stories. Still others deftly merge qualitative and quantitative approaches. . . . As a whole, the volume brings together disparate fields of study in interesting ways.” —James Craine, California State University, Northridge “This collection breaks new ground for cinema history. Hallam and Roberts have gathered some of the foremost scholars who are mapping spatial histories of the moving image and the geographies of film production, distribution and consumption. Introducing new interdisciplinary methods and asking new questions, Locating the Moving Image takes film studies into new territory, beyond the boundaries of the text and its interpretation, towards an understanding of the relationship between culture, spatiality and place.” —Richard Maltby, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University
Taking Place
Title | Taking Place PDF eBook |
Author | John David Rhodes |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1452932719 |
Explores how moving images both produce and are predicated on place
The City and the Moving Image
Title | The City and the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | R. Koeck |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2015-12-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230299237 |
This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores the recent developments in research on film and urban landscapes, pointing towards new theoretical and methodological frameworks for discussion.
Mapping the Moving Image
Title | Mapping the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | Pasi Väliaho |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9089641416 |
In Mapping the Moving Image, Pasi Valiaho offers a compelling study of how the medium of film came to shape our experience and thinking of the world and ourselves. By locating the moving image in new ways of seeing and saying as manifest in the arts, science and philosophy at the turn of the twentieth century, the book redefines the cinema as one of the most important anthropological processes of modernity. Moving beyond the typical understanding of cinema based on optical and linguistic models, Mapping the Moving Image takes the notion of rhythm as its cue in conceptualizing the medium's morphogenetic potentialities to generate affectivity, behaviour, and logics of sense. It provides a clear picture of how the forms of early film, while mobilizing bodily gestures and demanding intimate, affective engagement from the viewer, emerged in relation to bio-political investments in the body. The book also charts from a fresh perspective how the new gestural dynamics and visuality of the moving image fed into our thinking of time, memory and the unconscious.
Interpreting the Moving Image
Title | Interpreting the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | Noel Carroll |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1998-05-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780521589703 |
A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.
Positioning Art Cinema
Title | Positioning Art Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff King |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2019-01-24 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1786725568 |
Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value. From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe. But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by critics and in academic analysis? Exactly what kinds of cultural value are attributed to films of this type and how can this be explained? This book offers a unique analysis of how such processes work, including the broader cultural basis of the appeal of art cinema to particular audiences. Geoff King argues that there is no single definition of art cinema, but a number of distinct and recurrent tendencies are identified. At one end of the spectrum are films accorded the most 'heavyweight' status, offering the greatest challenges to viewers. Others mix aspects of art cinema with more accessible dimensions such as uses of popular genre frameworks and 'exploitation' elements involving explicit sex and violence. Including case studies of key figures such as Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodóvar and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, this is a crucial contribution to understanding both art cinema itself and the discourses through which its value is established.
Art and the Moving Image
Title | Art and the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | Tanya Leighton |
Publisher | Tate |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781854376251 |
"This book traces the story from early spatial experiments with film and video technologies to the current widespread use of projected images in museums and galleries."--BOOK JACKET.