Shortlisted for the BAFTSS 'Best Monograph' Award 2021 When
watching the latest instalment of Batman, it is perfectly normal to
say that we see Batman fighting Bane or that we see Bruce Wayne
making love to Miranda Tate. We would not say that we see Christian
Bale dressed up as Batman going through the motions of punching Tom
Hardy dressed up us Bane. Nor do we say that we see Christian Bale
pretending to be Bruce Wayne making love with Marion Cotillard, who
is playacting the role Miranda Tate. But if we look at the history
of cinema and consider contemporary reviews from the early days of
the medium, we see that people thought precisely in this way about
early film. They spoke of film as no more than documentary
recordings of actors performing on set. In an innovative
combination of philosophical aesthetics and new cinema history,
Mario Slugan investigates how our default imaginative engagement
with film changed over the first two decades of cinema. It
addresses not only the importance of imagination for the
understanding of early cinema but also contributes to our
understanding of what it means for a representational medium to
produce fictions. Specifically, Slugan argues that cinema provides
a better model for understanding fiction than literature.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2021 |
Authors: |
Mario Slugan
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-19481-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-350-19481-6 |
Barcode: |
9781350194816 |
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