Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the
traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood
blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in
film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of
both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and
cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context.
Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and
new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness.
Examining work from Eisenstein s Strike to the Rodney King
videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer
response and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred
Boundaries radically alters the interpretive frameworks offered by
neo-formalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a
social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract
mental process while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire,
lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to a
vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation such as
project, intentionality and the social imaginary. An important
departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries
offers new directions for the study of visual culture."
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