Making images move : handmade cinema and other arts / Gregory Zinman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zinman, Gregory, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who worked in experimental film pushed the medium toward abstraction through a number of unconventional filmmaking practices, including painting and scratching directly on the film strip; deteriorating film with water, dirt, and bleach; and applying materials such as paper and glue. This book provides a comprehensive history of this tradition of “handmade cinema” from the early twentieth century to the present, opening up new conversations about the production, meaning, and significance of the moving image. From painted film to kinetic art, and from psychedelic light shows to video synthesis, Gregory Zinman recovers the range of forms, tools, and intentions that make up cinema’s shadow history, deepening awareness of the intersection of art and media in the twentieth century, and anticipating what is to come.

Contents:

Introduction : A shadow history of the moving image

Between canvas and celluloid : Visual music, motion paintings, and cameraless photography

Abstractions in time : Painting and scratching on film

By chemicals, by body, by mechanism : Other handmade methods

Beyond the frame : Cameraless questions of politics and representation

Light in motion : The moving image between the plastic arts and cinema

Making space, making time : Light art of the 1950s and 1960s

Forms of radiance : The practice and significance of the psychedelic light show

Video art : Analog circuit palettes, cathode ray canvases

Conclusion : Handmade moving images in the digital era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520420755

0520420756

9780520972582

0520972589

OCLC:

1163878439