The Still/Moving Image: Cinema and the Arts - Couverture souple

Røssaak, Eivind

 
9783843360944: The Still/Moving Image: Cinema and the Arts
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3843360944 ISBN 13 : 9783843360944
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

What happens when we suddenly feel that a moving image is being slowed down or halted? Nowadays it happens all the time in the cinema and the art galleries. A basic question of life ? is it still or is it moving? ? here urgently addresses emotional and aesthetical issues as well as questions concerning media. The still/moving image compels a new sensibility. Eivind Røssaak's highly original media aesthetic analysis of the arts explores how the malleability of the speeds of motion instantiates odd relationships between different art and media forms. Three works are exemplary: Larry and Andy Wachowski's The Matrix, Ken Jacobs' Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son, and Bill Viola's The Passions. The last chapter calls for a ?Politics of the Slow?. This book is part of the emerging still/moving field within the interdisciplinary study of visual culture, cinema, new media and the arts. ?The usefulness of this book lies above all in the judicious and felicitous choice of contrasting complementary case studies, each of which is given a highly original historical placement and subjected to a complex and multi-layered historical hermeneutics?, Professor Thomas Elsaesser writes.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What happens when we suddenly feel that a moving image is being slowed down or halted? Nowadays it happens all the time in the cinema and the art galleries. A basic question of life ? is it still or is it moving? ? here urgently addresses emotional and aesthetical issues as well as questions concerning media. The still/moving image compels a new sensibility. Eivind Røssaak's highly original media aesthetic analysis of the arts explores how the malleability of the speeds of motion instantiates odd relationships between different art and media forms. Three works are exemplary: Larry and Andy Wachowski's The Matrix, Ken Jacobs' Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son, and Bill Viola's The Passions. The last chapter calls for a ?Politics of the Slow?. This book is part of the emerging still/moving field within the interdisciplinary study of visual culture, cinema, new media and the arts. ?The usefulness of this book lies above all in the judicious and felicitous choice of contrasting complementary case studies, each of which is given a highly original historical placement and subjected to a complex and multi-layered historical hermeneutics?, Professor Thomas Elsaesser writes.

Biographie de l'auteur

PhD, Associate Professor, Film and New Media, Department of Scholarship and Collections, National Library of Norway, Oslo. The author of several books and articles on film, philosophy, new media and the arts, and editor of The Archive in Motion: New Conceptions (2010) and Between Stillness and Motion: Film, Photography, Algorithms (forthcoming).

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3843360944
ISBN 13 
9783843360944
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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