Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

Martine Beugnet; Allan Cameron; Arild Fetveit

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

Indefinite Visions

Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

Martine Beugnet , Allan Cameron and Arild Fetveit

In the series Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474407137

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Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images

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.

Contributors

Emmanuelle André, Université Paris 7 Diderot
Jacques Aumont, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Erika Balsom, King’s College London
Raymond Bellour, French National Center for Scientific Research
Martine Beugnet, Université Paris 7 Diderot
Christa Blümlinger, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Allan Cameron, University of Auckland
Michel Chion, Composer, Filmmaker and Essay Writer
Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London
Catherine Fowler, University of Otago
Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Julian Hanich, University of Groningen
Martin Jay, University of California, Berkley
Kim Knowles, Aberystwyth University
Richard Misek, University of Kent
Giusy Pisano, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, University of California, Davis
D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago
Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University
Carol Vernallis, Stanford University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Martine Beugnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Illuminations
1. The Veiled Image: The Luminous Formless Jacques Aumont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. The Black Screen Richard Misek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3. Flicker and Shutter: Exploring Cinema’s Shuddering Shadow Tom Gunning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Definitions
4. One Hundred Years of Low Definition Erika Balsom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. Genres of Blur Martin Jay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
6. In Praise of the Sound Dissolve: Evanescences, Uncertainties, Fusions, Resonances Giusy Pisano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Frames
7. Jumps in Scale Michel Chion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8. Reflecting on Reflections: Cinema’s Complex Mirror Shots Julian Hanich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
9. Cinematic Indeterminacy According to Peter Tscherkassky: Coming Attractions Christa Blümlinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
10. Partying in The Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann’s Audiovisual Sublime Carol Vernallis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Temporalities
11. The Force of Small Gestures D. N. Rodowick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
12. Bill Viola and the Cinema of Indefinite Bodily Experience Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
13. Slow Looking: Confronting Moving Images with Georges Didi-Huberman Catherine Fowler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Materialities
14. (Re)visioning Celluloid: Aesthetics of Contact in Materialist Film Kim Knowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
15. Seeing through the Fingertips Emmanuelle André Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
16. Homo Animalis Kino Raymond Bellour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
17. Temporalities of the Glitch: Déjà Vu Sean Cubitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
18. The Glitch Dimension: Paranormal Activity and the Technologies of Vision Steven Shaviro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
19. Facing the Glitch: Abstraction, Abjection and the Digital Image Allan Cameron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 384
Illustrations
- Other: 30 colour illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: July 18, 2017
ISBN: 9781474407137