Moving Pictures Still Lives Film New Media and the Late Twentieth Century
and literary adaptations-it explores the work of artists and philosophers who complicated the usual association between tradition and the past or modernity and the future. Author James Tweedie retraces the "archaeomodern turn" in films and theory that framed the past as a repository of abandoned but
potentially transformative experiments. He examines late twentieth-century filmmakers who were inspired by old media, especially painting, and often viewed those art forms as portals to the modern past. In detailed discussions of Alain Cavalier, Terence Davies, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway,
Derek Jarman, Agns Varda, and other key directors, the book concentrates on films that fill the screen with a succession of tableaux vivants, still lifes, illuminated manuscripts, and landscapes. It also considers three key figures-Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, and Serge Daney-who grappled with
the late twentieth century's characteristic concerns, including history, memory, and belatedness. It reframes their theoretical work on film as a mourning play for past revolutions and a means of reviving the possibilities of the modern age (and its paradigmatic medium, cinema) during periods of
political and cultural retrenchment. Looking at cinema and the century in the rear-view mirror, the book highlights the unrealized potential visible in the history of film, as well as the cinematic phantoms that remain in the digital age.
Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | ART |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0190873876 |
Isbn 13 | 9780190873875 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.93" H x 00.06" L x 20.00" W |
Page Count | 304 |
James Tweedie is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The University of Washington and author of The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization (2013), which won the 2014 Katherine Singer Kovcs book award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.