This book places the concept of duration at the centre of an
understanding of cinema and spectatorship. The process of aesthetic
imaging in time is a unique and fascinating characteristic of
cinema. Why, then, has temporality, and specifically duration,
received so little attention in theoretical accounts of film
experience? This book makes the concept of duration the central
tenet in an understanding of cinema and spectatorship. From this
vantage point, the book reviews two major strands of film theory:
embodied viewing and the senses, and the film-philosophy of Gilles
Deleuze. Unlike much contemporary film theory, Mroz's book
emphasises the necessity of considering the close relationship
between intellectual comprehension and sensual apprehension, as
mediated through film aesthetics. In the duration of the film
experience, sensual responses to filmed textures and the
interpretive contexts that we inevitably bring to bear on films are
continually interacting. Exactly how this occurs is demonstrated in
detailed case studies of films by Antonioni (L'Avventura),
Tarkovsky (Mirror) and Kieslowski (The Decalogue).
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