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Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography
Karen Beckman
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Description for Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography
Paperback. Explores the boundary between cinema and photography. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments, this book addresses issues of indexicality, medium specificity, and hybridity as they examine how cinema and photography have developed and defined themselves. Editor(s): Beckman, Karen; Ma, Jean. Num Pages: 328 pages, 57 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AJ; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those in the field of art history confronting the ubiquity of film, video, and the projected image in contemporary art practice. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments, the contributors to this volume address issues of indexicality, medium specificity, and hybridity as they examine how cinema ... Read more
In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those in the field of art history confronting the ubiquity of film, video, and the projected image in contemporary art practice. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments, the contributors to this volume address issues of indexicality, medium specificity, and hybridity as they examine how cinema ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822341550
SKU
V9780822341550
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About Karen Beckman
Karen Beckman is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Film Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism, also published by Duke University Press. Jean Ma is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.
Reviews for Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography
Still Moving maps out various interesting directions, trends, and tendencies inspired by the fact that moving-image media are losing their coherence, spinning out and recombining in interesting ways. In doing so, it opens up a number of fresh paths for examining what film and photography, as well as cinema studies and art history, will become. It will be widely read ... Read more