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This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective
on cinema studies. Focusing on women's engagement with political
theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female
experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to
represent themselves and how they have been represented, and how
they deal with the cinematic apparatus, as subjects of production,
objects of representation, and spectators. A variety of approaches
are offered, ranging from psychoanalysis and semiology to history.
With an exhaustive filmography, this anthology of chapters by
eminent theorists demonstrates the central importance of recent
developments in Italy for the whole spectrum of film and feminist
studies.
This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective
on cinema studies. Focusing on women's engagement with political
theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female
experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to
represent themselves and how they have been represented, and how
they deal with the cinematic apparatus, as subjects of production,
objects of representation, and spectators. A variety of approaches
are offered, ranging from psychoanalysis and semiology to history.
With an exhaustive filmography, this anthology of chapters by
eminent theorists demonstrates the central importance of recent
developments in Italy for the whole spectrum of film and feminist
studies.
Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media
archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection,
atmosphere, and environment. Projection has long been transforming
space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic lantern
shows. Our fascination with projection is alive on the walls of
museums and galleries and woven into our daily lives. Giuliana
Bruno explores the histories of projection and atmosphere in visual
culture and their continued importance to contemporary artists who
are reinventing the projective imagination with atmospheric
thinking and the use of elemental media. To explain our fascination
with projection and atmosphere, Bruno traverses psychoanalysis,
environmental philosophy, architecture, the history of science,
visual art, and moving image culture to see how projective
mechanisms and their environments have developed over time. She
reveals how atmosphere is formed and mediated, how it can change,
and what projection can do to modify a site. In so doing, she gives
new life to the alchemic possibilities of transformative projective
atmospheres. Showing how their "environmentality" produces sites of
exchange and relationality, this book binds art to the ecology of
atmosphere.
A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and
art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and
transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated
publication surveys the work of filmmakers and artists who have
pushed the material and conceptual boundaries of cinema. Over the
past century, the material, optical, abstract, spatial, and tactile
properties of film have been tested at a level of experimentation
and utopian ambition that is generally unrecognized. Whether
creating synesthetic or 3-D environments, projective or
non-projective installations, generations of leading-edge artists
have explored how technology transforms experience. The essays
published here offer an intensive look at the themes of cinematic
space, formats of the screen, animation and CGI, the body and the
cyborg, and the materiality of film. Contributors place particular
emphasis on the idea of the cinema as a sensorium and on the ways
in which it defines the human body, both through representation and
in relation to the projected image. An immersive plate section
brings together rarely seen and previously unpublished stills, in
addition to concept drawings from historic and contemporary films.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition
Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(10/28/16-02/05/17)
Paper, cardboard, plywood, light—decidedly conceptual and
materially ephemeral, Tobias Putrih’s projects draw on the
visionary concepts of architecture and design and utopian ideas of
the 20th century avant-gardes. This book traces Putrih’s
investigations into the heritage of architectural experiments such
as the works of Buckminster Fuller and Friedrich Kiesler.
Perceptron is the first comprehensive survey of Putrih’s work
that oscillates between architecture, sculpture, and science.
Through an encyclopedic array of reference materials and critical
texts, it examines Putrih’s practice in the context of
architectural and design history as well as the history of
cybernetics, and offers a richly illustrated study of Putrih’s
modifications of public spaces, experiments with collective form,
as well as his immersive temporary environments created out of
everyday materials.
Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history,
Giuliana Bruno enriches our understanding of early Italian film as
she guides us on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian
culture in the first decades of this century. This innovative
approach---the interweaving of examples of cinema with
architecture, art history, medical discourse, photography, and
literature--addresses the challenge posed by feminism to film study
while calling attention to marginalized artists. An object of this
critical remapping is Elvira Notari (1875-1946), Italy's first and
most prolific woman filmmaker, whose documentary-style work on
street life in Naples, a forerunner of neorealism, was popularly
acclaimed in Italy and the United States until its suppression
during the Fascist regime. Since only fragments of Notari's films
exist today, Bruno illuminates the filmmaker's contributions to
early Italian cinematography by evoking the cultural terrain in
which she operated. What emerges is an intertextual montage of
urban film culture highlighting a woman's view on love, violence,
poverty, desire, and death. This panorama ranges from the city's
exteriors to the body's interiors. Reclaiming an alternative
history of women's filmmaking and reception, Bruno draws a cultural
history that persuasively argues for a spatial, corporal
interpretation of film language.
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Fashion in Film (Paperback)
Adrienne Munich; Contributions by Drake Stutesman, Mary Ann Caws, Ula Lukszo, Giuliana Bruno, …
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R697
Discovery Miles 6 970
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The vital synergy between dress and the cinema has been in place
since the advent of film. Broaching topics such as vampires, noir,
and Marie Antoinette looks, Fashion in Film uncovers the way in
which the alliance of these two powerhouse industries use myriad
cultural influences shaping narrative, national identity, and all
points in between. Contributor essays address international films
from early cinema to the present, drawing on the classic and the
innovative. This abundantly illustrated collection reveals that
fashion in conjunction with film must be understood in a different
way from fashion tout simple."
Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural
history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and
pictures, emphasises that "sight" and "site" but also "motion" and
"emotion" are irrevocably connected. In so doing, Giuliana Bruno
touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Message, the film
making of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, the origins
of the movie palace and its precursors, and her own journeys to her
native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno
opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.
What is the place of materiality the expression or condition of
physical substance in our visual age of rapidly changing materials
and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual
forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno
deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality
in the contemporary world. Arguing that materiality is not a
question of the materials themselves but rather the substance of
material relations, Bruno investigates the space of those
relations, examining how they appear on the surface of different
media on film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on
the skins of buildings and people. The object of visual studies,
she contends, goes well beyond the image and engages the surface as
a place of contact between people and art objects. As Bruno threads
through these surface encounters, she unveils the fabrics of the
visual the textural qualities of works of art, whether manifested
on canvas, wall, or screen. Illuminating the modern surface
condition, she notes how fa ades are becoming virtual screens and
the art of projection is reinvented on gallery walls. She traverses
the light spaces of artists Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Tacita
Dean, and Anthony McCall; touches on the textured surfaces of Isaac
Julien's and Wong Kar-wai's filmic screens; and travels across the
surface materiality in the architectural practices of Diller
Scofidio + Renfro and Herzog & de Meuron to the art of Doris
Salcedo and Rachel Whiteread, where the surface tension of media
becomes concrete. In performing these critical operations on the
surface, she articulates it as a site in which different forms of
mediation, memory, and transformation can take place. Surveying
object relations across art, architecture, fashion, design, film,
and new media, Surface is a magisterial account of contemporary
visual culture.
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