Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film
theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a
persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as
well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What
do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is
consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema,
from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film
related to the many modern practices that define themselves as
configuring pastness in the present, such as architectural
preservation, theme parks, and, above all, professional historical
research? What is the relation of history in film to other media
such as television and digital imaging? How does emphasizing the
connection between film and modern historicity affect the
theorization and historicization of film and modern media culture?
Pursuing the full implications of film as cultural production,
Philip Rosen reconceptualizes modern historicity as a combination
of characteristic epistemological structures on the one hand, and
the social imperative to regulate or manage time on the other.
Emphasizing a fundamental constellation of pursuit of the real,
indexical signification and the need to control time, he
interrogates a spectrum of film theory and film texts. His argument
refocuses the category of temporality for film and cultural theory
while rethinking the importance of historicity.
An original and sustained meditation on the historiographic
status of cinematic signs, Change Mummified is both an intervention
in film and media studies and an argument for the continuing
necessity of modern historical thinking in its contradictions.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2001 |
| First published: |
October 2001 |
| Authors: |
Philip Rosen
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 149 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
472 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-3638-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8166-3638-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780816636389 |
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