Moving pictures, still lives : film, new media, and the late twentieth century / James Tweedie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tweedie, James, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting and motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

x, 291 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. It explores the work of filmmakers and philosophers who witnessed the transition between a fading modernity crystallized in cinema and the new media visible in the offing. The book retraces an "archaeomodern turn" in media and theory that framed the history of cinema as a repository of abandoned but potentially transformative modern experiments. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the archaeomodern turn

Theory and the modern past, the hauntology of the cinematic image: Walter Benjamin, film theory, and the mourning play

Time's arrow, time's bow: Gilles Deleuze in the Baroque age of cinema

Serge Daney, Zapper: film, television, and the persistence of media

The cinema of painters. The suspended spectacle of history: the tableau vivant in late twentieth-century cinema

The afterlife of art and objects: the cinematic still life in the late twentieth century

Caliban's books: old and new media in the work of Peter Greenaway

Old haunts: commemoration and mourning in Agnès Varda's landscapes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190873882

0190873884

9780190873875

0190873876

OCLC:

1011547896