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Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis
Justin Remes
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Description for Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation. Reading experimental films such as Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), the Fluxus work Disappearing Music for Face (1965), Michael Snow's So Is This (1982), and Derek Jarman's Blue (1993), he shows how motionless films defiantly showcase the static while collapsing the boundaries between cinema, photography, painting, and literature. Analyzing four categories of static film--furniture films, designed to be viewed partially or distractedly; protracted films, which use extremely slow motion to impress ... Read more
Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation. Reading experimental films such as Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), the Fluxus work Disappearing Music for Face (1965), Michael Snow's So Is This (1982), and Derek Jarman's Blue (1993), he shows how motionless films defiantly showcase the static while collapsing the boundaries between cinema, photography, painting, and literature. Analyzing four categories of static film--furniture films, designed to be viewed partially or distractedly; protracted films, which use extremely slow motion to impress ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169622
SKU
V9780231169622
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About Justin Remes
Justin Remes is assistant professor of film studies at Iowa State University. His essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Screen, the British Journal of Aesthetics, and Film-Philosophy.
Reviews for Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis
An ambitious undertaking, supported by admirably clear prose and an impressive range of research.
Richard Dienst, Rutgers University Remes's concise writing eloquently recounts his sensitive attention to the screened films that he discusses. His subsequent, objectively based observations are often profound. His description and analysis of the implications of what he has seen in my own films is revealing ... Read more
Richard Dienst, Rutgers University Remes's concise writing eloquently recounts his sensitive attention to the screened films that he discusses. His subsequent, objectively based observations are often profound. His description and analysis of the implications of what he has seen in my own films is revealing ... Read more