The Past Is A Moving Picture

Author : Janna Jones
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813043661

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The Past Is a Moving Picture by Janna Jones Pdf

Almost all remnants of culture--past and present--degrade over time, whether sculpture or scrolls, painting or papyrus, books or clay tablets. Perhaps no major cultural record dissolves more rapidly than film, arguably the predominant medium of the twentieth century. Given the fragility of early nitrate film, much has already been lost. The fragments that remain--whether complete prints of theatrical releases or scraps of everyday life captured by Thomas Edison--only hint at what has disappeared. More recently, archives have been flooded with so much material that they lack the funds to properly preserve it all. Both situations raise questions about how film archives shape our understanding of history and culture. Janna Jones provides a stunning, tour-de-force analysis of the major assumptions and paradigmatic shifts about history, cinema, and the moving image archive, one that we ignore at our peril in the midst of the overwhelming rush toward digitization. No student of film, twentieth-century history, or archiving and preservation can afford to miss The Past Is a Moving Picture

Author : Maarten Pereboom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315508030

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History and Film by Maarten Pereboom Pdf

The ability to view recorded moving pictures has had a major impact on human culture since the development of the necessary technologies over a century ago. For most of this time people have gone to the movies to be entertained and perhaps edified, but in the meantime television, the videocassette recorder (VCR), the digital versatile disk (DVD) player, the personal computer (desktop and laptop), the internet and other technologies have made watching moving pictures possible at home, in the classroom and just about anywhere else. Today, moving images are everywhere in our culture. Every day, moving picture cameras record millions of hours of activity, human and otherwise, all over the world: your cell phone makes a little video of your friends at a party; the surveillance camera at the bank keeps on eye on customers; journalists’ shoulder-carried cameras record the latest from the war zone; and across the world film artists work on all kinds of movies, from low-budget independent projects to the next big-budget Hollywood blockbuster. Moving pictures have had a great influence on human culture, and this book focuses on using moving images as historical evidence. Studying history means examining evidence from the past to understand, interpret and present what has happened in different times and places. We talk and write about what we have learned, hoping to establish credibility both for what we have determined to be the facts and for whatever meaning or significance we may attach to our reconstruction of the past. Studying history is a scientific process, involving a fairly set methodology. We tend to favor written sources, and we have tended to favor writing as a means of presenting our views of the past. But historians also use all kinds of other documents and artifacts in their work of interpreting the past, including moving pictures.

Author : Janna Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History in motion pictures
ISBN : 0813043905

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The Past is a Moving Picture by Janna Jones Pdf

Janna Jones provides a tour-de-force analysis of the major assumptions and paradigmatic shifts about history, cinema and the moving image archive, one that we ignore at our peril in the midst of the overwhelming rush toward digitisation.

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192803535

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Film: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wood Pdf

Offers a wealth of insight into the paradoxical nature of film, considering its role and impact on society in the 20th century as well as its future in the digital age. Original.

Author : Nancy Mowll Mathews,Charles Musser
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1555952283

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Moving Pictures by Nancy Mowll Mathews,Charles Musser Pdf

Explores the complex relationship between American art and the new medium of film.

Author : James Tweedie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190873875

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Moving Pictures, Still Lives by James Tweedie Pdf

Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990s-the rise of the heritage industry, a global museum-building boom, and a cinematic fascination with costume dramas 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, Agnès 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015039589851

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Moving Picture World and View Photographer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maarten L. Pereboom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Historical films
ISBN : 0205792812

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History and Film by Maarten L. Pereboom Pdf

Author : Cider Mill Press
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781646430376

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The Wheels on the Bus by Cider Mill Press Pdf

Watch the wheels on the bus go round and round and sing along.

Author : Sven Lütticken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Arts and history
ISBN : 3943365891

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History in Motion by Sven Lütticken Pdf

"Analyzing a variety of films, video pieces, and performances, Sven Lütticken evaluates the impact that our changing experience of time has had on the actualization of history in the present."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Laura Mulvey
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1861892632

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Death 24x a Second by Laura Mulvey Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the role new media technologies play in our experience of film.

Author : Jordan Schonig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190093884

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The Shape of Motion by Jordan Schonig Pdf

"Cinematic motion has long been celebrated as an emblem of change and fluidity or claimed as the source of cinema's impression of reality. But such general claims undermine the sheer variety of forms that motion can take onscreen-the sweep of a gesture, the rush of a camera movement, the slow transformations of a natural landscape. What might we learn about the moving image when we begin to account for the many ways that movements move? In The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement, Jordan Schonig provides a new way of theorizing cinematic motion by examining cinema's "motion forms:" structures, patterns, or shapes of movement unique to the moving image. From the wild and unpredictable motion of flickering leaves and swirling dust that captivated early spectators, to the pulsing abstractions that emerge from rapid lateral tracking shots, to the bleeding pixel-formations caused by the glitches of digital video compression, each motion form opens up the aesthetics of movement to film theoretical inquiry. By pairing close analyses of onscreen movement in narrative and experimental films with concepts from Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Henri Bergson, and Immanuel Kant, Schonig rethinks longstanding assumptions within film studies, such as indexical accounts of photographic images and analogies between the camera and the human eye. Arguing against the intuition that cinema reproduces our natural perception of motion, The Shape of Motion shows how cinema's motion forms do not merely transpose the movements of the world in front of the camera; they transform them"

Author : Neil Hillman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000376296

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Sound for Moving Pictures by Neil Hillman Pdf

Sound for Moving Pictures presents a new and original sound design theory called the Four Sound Areas framework, offering a conceptual template for constructing, deconstructing and communicating all types of motion picture soundtracks; and a way for academics and practitioners to better understand and utilize the deeper, emotive capabilities available to all filmmakers through the thoughtful use of sound design. The Four Sound Areas framework presents a novel approach to sound design that enables the reader to more fully appreciate audience emotions and audience engagement, and provides a flexible, practical model that will allow professionals to more easily create and communicate soundtracks with greater emotional significance and meaning. Of obvious benefit to sound specialists, as well as motion picture professionals such as film producers, directors and picture editors, Sound for Moving Pictures also provides valuable insight for others interested in the subject; such as those involved with teaching soundtrack analysis, or those researching the wider topics of film studies and screen writing.

Author : Catherine Elwes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850803

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Installation and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes Pdf

Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960s, artists have explored filmic and televisual phenomena in the controlled environments of galleries and museums, drawing on multiple antecedents in cinema, television, and the visual arts. This volume traces the lineage of moving-image installation through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, expanded cinema, film history, and countercultural film and video from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Sound is given due attention, along with the shift from analogue to digital, issues of spectatorship, and the insights of cognitive science. Woven into this genealogy is a discussion of the procedural, political, theoretical, and ideological positions espoused by artists from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Historical constructs such as Peter Gidal's structural materialism, Maya Deren's notion of vertical and horizontal time, and identity politics are reconsidered in a contemporary context and intersect with more recent thinking on representation, subjectivity, and installation art. The book is written by a critic, curator, and practitioner who was a pioneer of British video and feminist art politics in the late 1970s. Elwes writes engagingly of her encounters with works by Anthony McCall, Gillian Wearing, David Hall, and Janet Cardiff, and her narrative is informed by exchanges with other practitioners. While the book addresses the key formal, theoretical, and historical parameters of moving-image installation, it ends with a question: "What's in it for the artist?"

Author : David B. Clarke,Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser,Marcus A. Doel
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739132272

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Moving Pictures/Stopping Places by David B. Clarke,Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser,Marcus A. Doel Pdf

Mobility has long been a defining feature of modern societies, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the various 'stopping places'_hotels, motels, and the like_that this mobility presupposes. If the paradoxical qualities of fixed places dedicated to facilitating movement have been overlooked by a variety of commentators, film-makers have shown remarkable prescience and consistency in engaging with these 'still points' around which the world is made to turn. Hotels and motels play a central role in a multitude of films, ranging across an immensely wide variety of genres, eras, and national cinemas. Whereas previous film theorists have focused on the movement implied by road movies and similar genres, the outstanding contributions to this volume extend the recent engagement with space and place in film studies, providing a series of fascinating explorations of the cultural significance of stopping places, both on screen and off. Ranging from the mythical elegance of the Grand Hotel, through the uncanny spaces of the Bates motel, to Korean 'love motels,' the wealth of insights, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, that this volume delivers is set to change our understanding of the role played by stopping places in an increasingly fluid world.