Love, Mortality and the Moving Image
E. Wilson
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Description for Love, Mortality and the Moving Image
Hardback. In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations surrounding mortality and longing, with new readings of works by Agnes Varda, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Sophie Calle, and many others. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations surrounding mortality and longing, with new readings of works by Agnès Varda, Pedro Almodóvar, Ingmar Bergman, Sophie Calle, and many others.
In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations surrounding mortality and longing, with new readings of works by Agnès Varda, Pedro Almodóvar, Ingmar Bergman, Sophie Calle, and many others.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230308398
SKU
V9780230308398
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About E. Wilson
EMMA WILSON Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She is Course Director of the MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures. Her recent books include Cinema's Missing Children (2003), Alain Resnais (2006) and Atom Egoyan (2009).
Reviews for Love, Mortality and the Moving Image
“This physically lovely book, packed with details, quotes and new concepts, contains an impressive reference list, a full index, informative endnotes and a comprehensive list of moving image artworks, all demonstrating the extensive research accomplished by Wilson. … Through her detailed, gentle and loving linguistic handling of the work of respected filmmakers and artists … Wilson has provided us with ... Read more