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Title Theorizing film through contemporary art : expanding cinema / edited by Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Film culture in transition
Film culture in transition.
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
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
Analysis Film Theory, Installation Art, Objectness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Art and motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Theory of art.
Film theory and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Art and motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Murphy, Jill, editor
Rascaroli, Laura, editor.
ISBN 9789048542024
9048542022