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Noel Burch Life to Those Shadows (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Life to Those Shadows
- Publication Name
- Life to Those Shadows
- Title
- Life to Those Shadows
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0520071441
- EAN
- 9780520071445
- ISBN
- 9780520071445
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Genre
- Performing Arts
- Release Year
- 1990
- Release Date
- 21/11/1990
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Topic
- Film / General, Film / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 317 Pages
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No l 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-sc ne-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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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520071441
ISBN-13
9780520071445
eBay Product ID (ePID)
985132
Product Key Features
Book Title
Life to Those Shadows
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
317 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Table of Content
Introduction Charles Baudelaire versus Doctor Frankenstein Life to Those Shadows The Wrong Side of the Tracks Those Gentlemen of the Lantern and the Parade Business is Business: An Invisible Audience Passions and Chases-A Certain Linearisation Building a Haptic Space A Primitive Mode of Representation? The Motionless Voyage: Constitution of the Ubiquitous Subject Beyond the Peephole, the Logos Narrative, Diegesis: Thresholds, Limits Conclusion Bibliography Filmography Index
Copyright Date
1990
Lccn
90-050406
Dewey Decimal
791.43
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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