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Auteur(s) : Harbord, Janet
Titre(s) : Ex-centric cinema [Texte imprimé] : Giorgio Agamben and film archaeology / Janet Harbord
Publication : New York ; London ; Oxford : Bloomsbury academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury publishing,
Inc., 2016
Description matérielle : xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : Thinking cinema ; volume 10
Lien à la collection : Thinking cinema
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index
"In the beginning, cinema was an encounter between humans, images and machine technology,
revealing a stream of staccato gestures, micrographic worlds, and landscapes seen
from above and below. In this sense, cinema's potency was its ability to bring other,
non-human modes of being into view, to forge an encounter between multiple realities
that nonetheless co-exist. Yet the story of cinema became (through its institutionalization)
one in which the human swiftly assumed centrality through the literary crafting of
story, character and the expression of interiority. Ex-centric Cinema takes an archaeological
approach to the study of cinema through the writings of philosopher Giorgio Agamben,
arguing that whilst we have a century-long tradition of cinema, the possibility of
what cinema may have become is not lost, but co-exists in the present as an unexcavated
potential. The term given to this history is ex-centric cinema, describing a centre-less
moving image culture where animals, children, ghosts and machines are privileged vectors,
where film is always an incomplete project, and where audiences are a coming community
of ephemeral connections and links. Discussing such filmmakers as Harun Farocki, the
Lumiere Brothers, Guy Debord and Wong Kar-wai, Janet Harbord draws connections with
Agamben to propose a radically different way of thinking about cinema." ; "Demonstrates
how Agamben's ideas can enrich and extend our understanding of film as a medium and
the cinema as an apparatus, constantly being remade"
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Excentric cinema
Sujet(s) : Agamben, Giorgio (1942-....) -- Critique et interprétation
Point de vue (cinéma)
Anthropocentrisme
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 1 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Philosophie, théorie, esthétique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781628922424. - ISBN 1628922427. - ISBN 9781628922417. - ISBN 1628922419. -
ISBN 9781628922387. - ISBN 1628922389. - ISBN 9781628922400. - ISBN 1628922400
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