"The asterisked chapters have been translated from the French by Elise Harris with Martine Beugnet"--Contents page. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Martine Beugnet -- Illuminations. The veiled image: the luminous formless / Jacques Aumont -- The black screen / Richard Misek -- Flicker and shutter: exploring cinema's shuddering shadow / Tom Gunning -- Definitions. One hundred years of low definition / Erika Balsom -- Genres of blur / Martin Joy -- In praise of the sound dissolve: evanescences, uncertainties, fusions, resonances / Giusy Pisano -- Frames. Jumps in scale / Michel Chion -- Reflecting on reflections: cinema's complex mirror shots / Julian Hanich -- Cinematic indeterminacy according to Peter Tscherkassky: coming attractions / Christa Blümlinger -- Partying the Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann's audiovisual sublime / Carol Vernallis -- Temporalities. The force of small gestures / D.N. Rodowick -- Bill Viola and the cinema of indefinite bodily experience / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli -- Slow looking: confronting moving images with Georges Didi-Huberman / Catherine Fowler -- Materialities. (Re)visioning celluloid: aesthetics of contact in materialist film / Kim Knowles -- Seeing through the fingertips / Emmanuelle André -- Homo animalis kino / Raymond Bellour -- Glitches. Temporalities of the glitch: Déjà Vu / Sean Cubitt -- The glitch dimension: Paranormal Activity and the technologies of vision / Steven Shaviro -- Facing the glitch: abstraction, abjection and digital image / Allan CAmeron -- Index.
Summary:
Audiovisual culture often privileges the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet order and clarity do not come 'naturally' to the moving image. Light, motion, definition, compression: the conditions of recording, storing and screening can subject audiovisual media to countless variations, pulling them towards the indefinite and illegible. Filmmakers and artists often seek out and work with the resulting uncertainty, from the warping of space to the melding of senses, from glare to shadow and blur to glitch. This collection concerns itself with the aesthetics, concepts and politics of indefinite and obscured moving images, examining what is at stake in their foregrounding of materiality and mediation, evanescence and flux. Pursuing a range of approaches (spanning history, theory and close analysis), the authors in this volume investigate techniques, effects and themes that emerge from the wilful excavation of the moving image's formal and material base. -- ‡c From back cover.
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