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In Broad Daylight
Gabriele Pedullà
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Description for In Broad Daylight
Hardcover. The metamorphosis of the spectator and the arts in the age of YouTube. Translator(s): Gaborik, Patricia. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics, exploring the metamorphosis of films in the age of individual media, when the public is increasingly free but also increasingly resistant to the emotive force of the pictures flashing around us. Moving deftly from philosophy of mind to film theory, from architectural practice to ethics, from Leon Battista Alberti to Orson Welles, Gabriele Pedullà ... Read more
From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics, exploring the metamorphosis of films in the age of individual media, when the public is increasingly free but also increasingly resistant to the emotive force of the pictures flashing around us. Moving deftly from philosophy of mind to film theory, from architectural practice to ethics, from Leon Battista Alberti to Orson Welles, Gabriele Pedullà ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844678532
SKU
V9781844678532
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99-15
About Gabriele Pedullà
Gabriele Pedullà (Rome, 1972) is professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Rome 3 and visiting professor at Stanford. His books include a biography of the partisan-writer Beppe Fenoglio, a monograph on Machiavelli's theory of conflict, a co-edited three volume Atlas of Italian Literature and a best-selling anthology of partisan short stories, Racconti della Resistenza. For his first book ... Read more
Reviews for In Broad Daylight
Charming and highly readable ... the book is well observed and gives a concise sense of what may be at stake in the current technological transformations of film viewing.
Artforum
Insights abound, and the author's facility with so many different disciplines-from ancient Greek philosophy to 20th century semiotics-will ensure that casual filmgoers and academics alike find something salient ... Read more
Artforum
Insights abound, and the author's facility with so many different disciplines-from ancient Greek philosophy to 20th century semiotics-will ensure that casual filmgoers and academics alike find something salient ... Read more