Cinema is a dream : new images and the principles of modernity / by Andrea Rabbito ; translated by Lucia De Vanna, James Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabbito, Andrea, author.

Contributor:

De Vanna, Maria Lucia, translator.

Butler, James (Writer at Black Cat Publishing), translator.

Series:

Cinema ; n. 1.

Cinema ; n. 1

Standardized Title:

Cinema è sogno : le nuove immagini e i principi della modernità. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Image (Philosophy).

Aesthetics.

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Visual perception.

Physical Description:

230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

New images and the principles of modernity

Place of Publication:

[Milano] : Mimesis International, [2016]

Language Note:

Translation of: Il cinema è sogno : le nuove immagini e i principi della modernità.

Summary:

"The emergence and spread of new images - photography, film, television and audiovisual - have brought about an important epistemological revolution that has encouraged contemporary man to have a new attitude of confidence not only towards the image but also to reality. The modern knowledge, that exploded man's certainties into hundreds of relative truths, has been removed. The perfect doubling of reality offered by the new media has quietly eliminated doubt about the faithful restitution of reality into images, and, consequently, into the events of the outside world. Opposing this credulity, this mental breakdown, as Joseph Conrad called it, we will need to recover the principles and themes of modern thought that came into existence in the seventeenth century. This recovery will serve not only to oppose illusions and deceit, but also to better understand the nature of the new images"--Page 2 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-230).

ISBN:

8869770664

9788869770661

OCLC:

942839639

Publisher Number:

99971477077