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Life to Those Shadows (Paperback)
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Life to Those Shadows (Paperback)
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Noel Burch's singularly perceptive view of film and its origins
will interest all who care about film theory and history. "Life to
Those Shadows" presents a critique of 'classical' approaches to
film: the assumptions that what we call the language of film was a
natural, organic development, and that it lay latent from the
outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting for the
prescient pioneers to bring it into being. The view that film
language was a universal, neutral medium, innocent of any social or
historical meaning in itself, is also challenged here. Burch's
major thesis is that, on the contrary, film language has a social
and economic history, that it evolved in the way it did because of
when and where it was constructed - in the capitalist and
imperialist West between 1892 and 1929. From this perspective, the
book examines the emergence of what it defines as cinema's
Institutional Mode of Representation and the sociohistorical
circumstances in which it took place. Central to the Institutional
Mode are the principles of visualization - camera placement and
movement, lighting, editing, mise-en-scene - that filmmakers and
audiences came to internalize over the first three decades. Special
emphasis is laid on the all-important change that occurred in the
placing of the spectator, from a position of exteriority to the
film image - implicit in both film-form and viewing conditions
during the primitive era (pre-1909) - to the imaginary centering of
the spectator-subject - completed only with the generalization of
lip-synch sound after 1929. Burch contends that this imaginary
centering of a sensorially isolated spectator is the keystone of
the cinematic illusion of reality, still achieved today by the same
means as it was sixty years ago.
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