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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809782003321

Titolo

Technology and desire : the transgressive art of moving images / / edited by Rania Gaafar and Martin Schulz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Intellect, , 2014

ISBN

1-78320-167-3

1-78320-166-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Disciplina

777

Soggetti

Art and technology

Digital media

Computer art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Post-medial Technologies of Desire: Performances of Images; Prelude: Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls, or the Sudden Disorganization of Boundaries; PART I: Post-Medial Image Cultures and New Media Philosophies; Chapter 1: Technical Repetition and Digital Art, or Why the 'Digital' in Digital Cinema is not the 'Digital' in Digital Technics; Chapter 2: Arrest and Movement; Chapter 3: The Aesthetics of Flow and the Aesthetics of Catharsis; Chapter 4: Digital Images and Computer Simulations

Chapter 5: Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics, or the Unthought at the Heart of WoodPART II: Fugitive Images and Transmediality; Chapter 6: Animated and Animating Landscapes: Space Voyages and Time Travel in the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Colour Plates; Chapter 7: Copernicus and I: Revolutions in Perception and The Powers of Ten; Chapter 8: Cinema Mise en abyme: Contingencies of the Moving Image; Chapter 9: Still Life in the Crosshairs, or For an Iconic Turn in Game Studies; Chapter 10: Out of Image; PART III: Post-Cinematic Desires: Genealogies of Anthropomorphic Transgressions

Chapter 11: Choreographing the Moving Image: Post-Cinematic Desire and the Politics of AestheticsChapter 12: Desire, Time and Transition in Anthropological Film-making; Chapter 13: Longing in Film: Emotions in



Images; Chapter 14: The Fever Curve of the Gaze and the Body as (Image) Medium: Jacques Lacan's Media Theory of Unconscious Desire; PART IV: Material Specters and the Lives of Images; Chapter 15: The Sequence Image Between Motion and Stillness; Chapter 16: Gaze and Withdrawal: On the 'Logic' of Iconic Structures; Chapter 17: The Magical Image in Georges Méliès's Cinema

Chapter 18: Liminal Spaces: Notes by Film-maker and Artist Malcolm Le GriceChapter 19: Transgression: The Ethical Turn and the New Politics - Fatih Akin's Cinema and the Multicultural Dilemma; Chapter 20: Radicant Spaces of Enunciation: Visual Art, 'Phenomenotechnique', and 'Criticality' - Towards a Postcolonial Media(l) Theory; Biographies of Authors; Back Cover