The Transparency of Spectacle

Meditations on the Moving Image

Wheeler Winston Dixon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

223 Seiten

1998
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
9780791437810 (ISBN)

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Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.

While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed.

Wheeler Winston Dixon is Chair of the Film Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; It Looks at You: The Returned Gaze in Cinema; The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema; and Re-Viewing British Cinema 1900–1992: Essays and Interviews, all published by SUNY Press, as well as The Early Film Criticism of François Truffaut.

Acknowledgments

Chapter One
Moving the Center: The Reconfiguration of the Moving Image

Chapter Two
Images of Empire Lost (Losey, Wallace, and the Danzigers) and Empire Regained (the Sankofa Collective)

Chapter Three
The Limits of Cinematic Spectacle: Considerations on the Horror Film

Chapter Four
Spectacles of Impoverishment: Recycling the Image Bank

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780791437810 / 9780791437810
Zustand	Neuware