Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art

Expanding Cinema

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Edited by Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli

Type

Studies

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, arts, aesthetics

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Collection

Film Culture in Transition

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 302 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-94-6298-946-7

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Book Presentation:
As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic medium - and their critique of what it is and has been? In Theorizing Cinema Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema, leading film theorists consider artworks that incorporate, restage, and re-present cinema's configuration of the key categories of space, experience, presence/absence, production and consumption, technology, myth, perception, event, and temporality, so interrogating the creation, appraisal, and evolution of film theory as channeled through contemporary art. This book takes film theory as a blueprint for the moving image, and juxtaposes it with artworks that render cinema as a material object. In the process, it unfolds a complex relationship between a theory and a practice that have commonly been seen as virtually incompatible, renewing our understanding of each and, more to the point, their interactions.

About the authors:
Jill Murphy is an independent scholar. Laura Rascaroli is Professor of Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, Ireland.

See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press