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Absence in Cinema - The Art of Showing Nothing (Hardcover)
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Absence in Cinema - The Art of Showing Nothing (Hardcover)
Series: Film and Culture Series
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Absence has played a crucial role in the history of avant-garde
aesthetics, from the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenberg to Yves
Klein's invisible paintings, from the "silent" music of John Cage
to Samuel Beckett's minimalist theater. Yet little attention has
been given to the important role of absence in cinema. In the first
book to focus on cinematic absence, Justin Remes demonstrates how
omissions of expected elements can spur viewers to interpret and
understand the nature of film in new ways. While most film
criticism focuses on what is present, such as images on the screen
and music and dialogue on the soundtrack, Remes contends that what
is missing is an essential part of the cinematic experience. He
examines films without images-such as Walter Ruttmann's Weekend
(1930), a montage of sounds recorded in Berlin-and films without
sound-such as Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving (1959),
which documents the birth of the filmmaker's first child. He also
examines found footage films that erase elements from preexisting
films such as Naomi Uman's removed (1999), which uses nail polish
and bleach to blot out all the women from a pornographic film, and
Martin Arnold's Deanimated (2002), which digitally eliminates
images and sounds from a Bela Lugosi B movie. Remes maps out the
effects and significations of filmic voids while grappling with
their implications for film theory. Through a careful analysis of a
broad array of avant-garde works, Absence in Cinema reveals that
films must be understood not only in terms of what they show but
also what they withhold.
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