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Documentary time : film and phenomenology / Malin Wahlberg.
LIBRA PN1995.9.D6 W24 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wahlberg, Malin.
- Series:
- Visible evidence ; v. 21.
- Visible evidence ; v. 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary films--History and criticism.
- Documentary films.
- Time in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Finding the theoretical space where cinema and philosophy meet, Malin Wahlberg's sophisticated approach to the experience of documentary film aligns with attempts to reconsider the premises of existential phenomenology. The configuration of time is crucial in organizing the sensory affects of film in general but, as Wahlberg deftly demonstrates, in nonfiction films the problem of managing time is writ large by the moving image's interaction with social memory and historical figures. Wahlberg discusses a thought-provoking corpus of classical and recent experiments in film and video (including Andy Warhol's films) in which creative approaches to the time of the image and the potential archive memory of filmic representation illuminate meanings of temporality and time experience. She also offers a methodological account of film and brings Deleuze and Ricoeur into dialogue with Bazin and Mitry on the subject of cinema and phenomenology. Drawing attention to the cultural significance of the image's imprint as a trace of the past, Documentary Time brings to bear phenomenological inquiry on nonfiction film while at the same time reconsidering the existential dimensions of time that have always puzzled humans.
- Contents:
- Part I Framing Change, Invoking the Moment
- 1 The Phenomenology of Image and Time 3
- 2 The Time-Image and the Trace 22
- 3 Frame-Breaking Events and Motifs beyond Representation 44
- Part II Experimental Figures of Time
- 4 The Interval and Pulse Beat of Rhythm 63
- 5 Screen Events of Velocity and Duration 79
- 6 Telling Signs of Loss: Beginnings of Possible Stories 101
- 7 The Trace in Contemporary Media 118
- Documentary Time: An Afterword 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816649686
- 0816649685
- 9780816649693
- 0816649693
- OCLC:
- 124074994
- Online:
- Publisher description
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