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Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

Beugnet, Martine
Fetveit, Arild
Cameron, Allan

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

Film StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 1474407129
ISBN13: 9781474407120
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Jul 18 2017
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 1.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not come 'naturally' to the moving image, and if there is one visual effect the eye of the camera can record better than the human eye it is blur. Looking beyond popular media to works of experimental cinema and video art, this groundbreaking collection addresses the aesthetics and politics of moving images in states of decay, distortion, indistinctness and fragmentation. A range of international scholars examines what is at stake in these images' sometimes radical foregrounding of materiality and mediation, or of evanescence and spectrality, as well as their challenging of the dominant position accorded to 'legible' images. How have artists and filmmakers rendered the 'indefinite' image, and what questions does it pose? With a range of approaches, from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies, the authors in this volume investigate techniques, themes and concepts that emerge from this wilful excavation of the moving image's material base.

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