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Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up: Thinking Media

Autor Jiri Anger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iun 2024
Operating between film theory, media philosophy, archival practice, and audiovisual research, Jiri Anger focuses on the relationship between figuration and materiality in early films, experimental found footage cinema, and video essays. Would it be possible to do film theory from below, through the perspective of moving-image objects, of their multifarious details and facets, however marginal, unintentional, or aleatory they might be? Could we treat scratches, stains, and shakes in archival footage as speculatively and aesthetically generative features? Do these material actors have the capacity to create "weird shapes" within the figurative image that decenter, distort, and transform the existing conceptual and methodological frameworks?Building on his theoretical as well as practical experience with the recently digitized corpus of the first Czech films, created by Jan Krízenecký between 1898 and 1911, the author demonstrates how technological defects and accidents in archival films shape their aesthetic function and our understanding of the materiality of film in the digital age. The specific clashes between the figurative and material spheres are understood through the concept of a "crack-up." This term, developed by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and theoretically reimagined by Gilles Deleuze, allows us to capture the convoluted relationship between figuration and materiality as inherent to the medium of film, containing negativity and productivity, difference and simultaneity, contingency and fate, at the same time, even within the tiniest cinematic units.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9798765107263
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 63 colour illus
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Thinking Media

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

The book bridges boundaries between theory and practice, radicalizing Bernd Herzogenrath's appeal for a "practical aesthetics," thinking with and through the artwork, and not about it

Notă biografică

Jiri Anger is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He also works at the National Film Archive in Prague, Czech Republic, as a researcher and editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Iluminace. His specialization lies in the theory and history of early cinema, archival film, found footage, and videographic criticism. Anger is the author of two monographs, two edited volumes, and numerous journal articles (NECSUS, Film-Philosophy, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, etc.).

Cuprins

List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction: What Is Film Theory from Below?1. Keep That Image Burning: Color Veil and the Cinema That Never Stops Ending 2. Do Archivists Dream of Electric Horses?: Static Electricity and the Quadruple Logic of Indexicality 3. Trembling Meaning: Camera Instability and Transduction in Archival Moving Images 4. The Milestone That Never Happened: The Scratched Kiss and the Failed Beginning of Czech Cinema5. Touching the Film Object with Surgical Gloves: Frankensteinian Frames and the Fragile Malleability of Cinematic Faces6. Shaping the Unshapeable?: Videographic Deformation and the First Frames of Czech Cinema Conclusion: Digital Krízenecký Off the Scale? BibliographyFilmographySupplementsIndex