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Cinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era (Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition)
Maria Tortajada (Ed.)
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Paperback. A remarkable and wide-ranging examination of some of the crucial issues in film theory, drawing on the Foucauldian concepts of the dispositif and the episteme. Editor(s): Tortajada, Maria; Albera, Francois van den. Series: Film Culture in Transition. Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474. Media Epistemology in the Modern Era. Series: Film Culture in Transition. 276 pages, Illustrated. Editor(s): Albera, Francois; Tortajada, Maria. A remarkable and wide-ranging examination of some of the crucial issues in film theory, drawing on the Foucauldian concepts of the dispositif and the episteme. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: APFA. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight: 474.
This thoughtful exploratory study deals with three seminal issues in film theory, notably the relationship of image and sound, early manifestations of the moving image, and new connections between the voice and the use of the body in contemporary cinema. The contributors discuss, among aothers, the period at the end of the nineteenth century, with the exploration of medical discourses linked to the appearance of the cinema; the archaeological approach to voyeurism, which would become one of the recurrent concepts of cinematographic studies; the introduction of audiovisual technologies in contemporary theatre and the ways in which they have affected the ... Read more
This thoughtful exploratory study deals with three seminal issues in film theory, notably the relationship of image and sound, early manifestations of the moving image, and new connections between the voice and the use of the body in contemporary cinema. The contributors discuss, among aothers, the period at the end of the nineteenth century, with the exploration of medical discourses linked to the appearance of the cinema; the archaeological approach to voyeurism, which would become one of the recurrent concepts of cinematographic studies; the introduction of audiovisual technologies in contemporary theatre and the ways in which they have affected the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Film Culture in Transition
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089640833
SKU
V9789089640833
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About Maria Tortajada (Ed.)
Maria Tortajada is professor in the Department of History and Aesthetics of Film at Université de Lausanne in Switzerland.
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