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Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity
Francesco Casetti
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Description for Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity
Hardback. Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? This book situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. It examines film's nature as a medium in an age obsessed with immediacy, nearness, and accessibility. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco Casetti situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. He suggests that film defined a unique gaze, not only because it recorded many of the century's most important events, but also because it determined the manner in which they were received. Casetti begins by examining film's nature as a medium in an age obsessed with immediacy, nearness, and accessibility. He considers the myths and rituals cinema ... Read more
Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco Casetti situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. He suggests that film defined a unique gaze, not only because it recorded many of the century's most important events, but also because it determined the manner in which they were received. Casetti begins by examining film's nature as a medium in an age obsessed with immediacy, nearness, and accessibility. He considers the myths and rituals cinema ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231139946
SKU
V9780231139946
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About Francesco Casetti
Francesco Casetti is full professor at the Universita Cattolica in Milan where he teaches the study of cinematography and is the chair of the Department of Media and Performing Arts. He has also taught at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Sorbonne. He is the author of Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator and ... Read more
Reviews for Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity
"Casetti's writing is erudite, elegant, insightful, and with its repeated direct address to the reader, seductively dialogic and alluringly didactic."
Sabine Hake, H-German
Sabine Hake, H-German