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.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Courtesy of the Artists

Introduction: On Cinema Expanding

Part One Materialities

1 Cinema as (In)Visible Object

2 Objects in Time

3 Materializing the Body of the Actor

4 How to Spell ‘Film’

Part Two Immaterialities

5 The Magic of Shadows

6 Douglas Gordon and the Gallery of the Mind

7 A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

Part Three Temporalities

8 The Photo-Filmic Diorama

9 The Cinematic Dispositif and Its Ghost

10 Time/Frame: On Cinematic Duration

Part Four The Futures of the Image

11 Interactivity without Control

12 Post-Cinematic Unframing

13 Absolute Immanence

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jun 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70823-4

90-485-6169-8

90-485-4202-2

9781003708230

OCLC:

1200747199