The heretical archive : digital memory at the end of film / Domietta Torlasco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torlasco, Domietta, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxi, 123 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Summary:

The Heretical Archive examines the relationship between memory and creation in contemporary films and installations that use digital technology while simultaneously appropriating analog materials. Domietta Torlasco argues that these digital and multimedia artworks radically transform our memory of cinema and our understanding of the archive. Connecting psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and feminist theory in innovative ways, Torlasco analyzes cutting-edge digital works that engage with the past of European cinema and visual culture. She claims that if the archives of psychoanalysis and cinema have long privileged the lineage that runs from Oedipus to Freud, the archives of the digital age-the "heretical archive"-can help us imagine an unruly, porous, multifaceted legacy, one in which marginal figures return to speak of lost life as much as of life that demands to be lived. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Against house arrest

Digital impressions: writing memory after Agnès Varda

Folding time: toward a new theory of montage

Archiving disappearance: from Michelangelo Antonioni to new media.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816681099

0816681090

9780816681105

0816681104

OCLC:

816563865