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The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film

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Description for The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKV; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 232.


The Heretical Archive examines the relationship between memory and creation in contemporary artworks that use digital technology while appropriating film materials. Domietta Torlasco argues that these digital films and multimedia installations radically transform our memory of cinema and our understanding of the archive. Indeed, such works define a notion of archiving not as the passive preservation of audiovisual signs but as an intervention and the creative rearticulation of cinema’s perceptual and political textures.


Connecting psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and feminist theory in innovative ways, Torlasco analyzes cutting-edge digital works that engage with the past of European cinema and visual culture, ... Read more


Torlasco’s central claim is that if the archives of psychoanalysis and cinema have long privileged the lineage that runs from Oedipus to Freud, the archives of the digital age—what she calls the “heretical archive”—can help us imagine an unruly, porous, multifaceted legacy, one in which marginal figures return to speak of lost life as much as of life that demands to be lived.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816681105
SKU
V9780816681105
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About Domietta Torlasco
Domietta Torlasco is associate professor of French and Italian and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University. She is the creator of the digital film Antigone’s Noir and the author of The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film.

Reviews for The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film
"Inspired by other scholars who have brought the phenomenological method to cinema, Domietta Torlasco writes beautifully of her own encounters with films and images, drawing the reader into her own vision as she elucidates its implication in a constellation of deep thought. The book’s insights are as fresh and profound as its writing, in other words: at its best moments, ... Read more

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