New PDF release: Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (Film and

By Justin Remes

ISBN-10: 0231169620

ISBN-13: 9780231169622

ISBN-10: 0231169639

ISBN-13: 9780231169639

Conducting the 1st complete examine of movies that don't flow, Justin Remes demanding situations the primacy of movement in cinema and checks the theoretical limits of movie aesthetics and illustration. interpreting experimental motion pictures similar to Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), the Fluxus paintings Disappearing song for Face (1965), Michael Snow's So Is This (1982), and Derek Jarman's Blue (1993), he indicates how immobile movies defiantly exhibit the static whereas collapsing the limits among cinema, images, portray, and literature.

Analyzing 4 different types of static film--furniture movies, designed to be seen partly or distractedly; protracted movies, which use tremendous sluggish movement to provoke stasis; textual motion pictures, which foreground the static reveal of letters and written phrases; and monochrome motion pictures, which demonstrate a box of monochrome colour as their image--Remes maps the interrelations among circulate, stillness, and period and their worry of cinema's traditional functionality and results. Arguing all motion pictures spread in time, he indicates period is extra basic to cinema than movement, beginning clean inquiries into film's manipulation of temporality, from rigidly based works to these with extra ambiguous and open-ended frameworks. Remes's dialogue integrates the writings of Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Tom Gunning, Rudolf Arnheim, Raymond Bellour, and Noel Carroll and should attract scholars of movie concept, experimental cinema, intermedia reports, and aesthetics.

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