Theorizing film through contemporary art : expanding cinema / edited by Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Jill, editor.

Rascaroli, Laura, editor.

Series:

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and the arts.

Art and motion pictures.

Art, Modern--21st century.

Art, Modern.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Manufacture:

United States : Printed by Bookmasters.

Place of Publication:

[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

Summary:

As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic from the immateriality of the film screen, separating it into its physical components within the gallery space. How do film theorists read these reformulations of the cinematic medium and their critique of what it is and has been? 'Theorizing Cinema through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema' considers artworks that incorporate, restage, and re-present cinema's configurations of space, experience, presence/absence, production and consumption, technology, myth, perception, event, and temporality, thereby addressing the creation, appraisal, and evolution of film theory as channeled through contemporary art. Taking film theory as a blueprint for the moving image, and juxtaposing it with artworks that render cinema as a material object, this book unfolds a complex relationship between a theory and a practice that have often been seen as virtually incompatible, heightening our understanding of each and, more pertinently, their interactions.

"As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic medium--and their critique of what it is and has been? In 'Theorizing Film through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema', leading film theorists consider artworks that incorporate, restage, and re-present cinema's configuration of the key categories of space, experience, presence/absence, production and consumption, technology, myth, perception, event, and temporality, so interrogating the creation, appraisal, and evolution of film theory as channeled through contemporary art. This book takes film theory as a blueprint for the moving image, and juxtaposes it with artworks that render cinema as a material object. In the process, it unfolds a complex relationship between a theory and a practice that have commonly been seen as virtually incompatible, renewing our understanding of each and, more to the point, their interactions."--Back cover.

Contents:

(from table of contents) Foreword: Courtesy of the Artists / Sandra Gibson + Luis Recorder

Introduction: On Cinema Expanding / Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli

Part One. Materialities. Cinema as (In)Visible Object: looking, making, and remaking / Matilde Nardelli

Objects in Time: artefacts in artists' moving image / Alison Butler

Materializing the Body of the Actor: labour, memory, and storage / Maeve Connolly

How to Spell 'Film': Gibson + Recorder's alphabet of projection / Volker Pantenburg

Part Two. Immaterialities. The Magic of Shadows: distancing and exposure in William Kentridge's "More Sweetly Play the Dance" / Jill Murphy

Douglas Gordon and the Gallery of the Mind / Sarah Cooper

A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance: Tacita Dean's "Section Cinema (Hommage to Marcel Broodthaers)" / Kirstie North

Part Three. Temporalities. The Photo-Filmic Diorama / Ágnes Pethő

The Cinematic 'Dispositif' and Its Ghost: Sugimoto's "Theaters" / Stefano Baschiera

Time/Frame: On Cinematic Duration / Laura Rascaroli

Part Four. The Futures of the Image. Interactivity without Control: David O'Reilly's "Everything" (2017) and the representation of totality / Andrew V. Uroskie

Post-Cinematic Unframing / Lisa Åkervall

Absolute Immanence / D.N. Rodowick.

Notes:

Series title from covers.

Each chapter begins with "Abstract", in English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Theorizing film through contemporary art.

ISBN:

9789462989467

946298946X

OCLC:

1182835789