Indefinite Visions

Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

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Edited by Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron and Arild Fetveit

Type

Studies

Subject

Theory

Keywords

philosophy, aesthetics

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 384 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-0712-0

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Book Presentation:
Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images

Audiovisual culture often privileges the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet order and clarity do not come 'naturally' to the moving image. Light, motion, definition, compression: the conditions of recording, storing and screening can subject audiovisual media to countless variations, pulling them towards the indefinite and illegible. Filmmakers and artists often seek out and work with the resulting uncertainty, from the warping of space to the melding of senses, from glare to shadow and blur to glitch.

This collection concerns itself with the aesthetics, concepts and politics of indefinite and obscured moving images, examining what is at stake in their foregrounding of materiality and mediation, evanescence and flux. Pursuing a range of approaches (spanning history, theory and close analysis), the authors in this volume investigate techniques, effects and themes that emerge from the wilful excavation of the moving image's formal and material base.
Contributors
• Emmanuelle André, Université Paris 7 Diderot
• Jacques Aumont, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
• Erika Balsom, King’s College London
• Raymond Bellour, French National Center for Scientific Research
• Martine Beugnet, Université Paris 7 Diderot
• Christa Blümlinger, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
• Allan Cameron, University of Auckland
• Michel Chion, Composer, Filmmaker and Essay Writer
• Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London
• Catherine Fowler, University of Otago
• Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
• Julian Hanich, University of Groningen
• Martin Jay, University of California, Berkley
• Kim Knowles, Aberystwyth University
• Richard Misek, University of Kent
• Giusy Pisano, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière
• Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, University of California, Davis
• D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago
• Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University
• Carol Vernallis, Stanford University

About the authors:
Martine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at the University of Paris 7 Diderot.
Allan Cameron Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television at the University of Auckland
Arild Fetveit is Associate Professor in the Department for Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen.

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press