{"product_id":"bigger-than-life-9781478013563","title":"Bigger Than Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Matching her earlier, masterful treatment of cinematic time, Mary Ann Doane here offers a brilliant probing of cinematic space. She explores cinema’s dynamic use of scale, from the magnification of the face in close-up to new screen technologies ranging from the iPhone to IMAX. Drawing on a range of film styles and practices, including early cinema, avant-garde experiments, and Shanghai cinema of the 1930s, Doane reveals how cinema has shaped a modern abstract and even dematerialized world.” -- Tom Gunning, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Ann Doane’s highly innovative, theoretically brilliant, and eloquently incisive consideration of the history of the filmic close-up and its relation to scale will undoubtedly make \u003ci\u003eBigger Than Life\u003c\/i\u003e a field-changing work.” -- Maggie Hennefeld, author of * Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBigger Than Life \u003c\/i\u003eopens with a unique and crucial examination of the history and historiography of the close-up, its conclusion offers a look at cinema in its biggest and most impactful forms, even cinema beyond cinema itself – this is where Doane’s work becomes truly colossal.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Harrison Whitaker * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Bigger Than Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e’\u003c\/i\u003es wide-ranging interrogation of its subject makes for a thrilling and rewarding read. [It] is altogether awe-inspiring and overwhelming in ways appropriate to its subject, constituting an important meditation on the dialogue between new and old media.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alicia Byrnes * Film-Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Scale, the Cinematic Image, and the Negotiation of Space  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Close-Up\/Face\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Delirium of a Minimal Unit  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Cinematic Manufacture of Scale, or Historical Vicissitudes of the Close-Up  53\u003cbr\u003e 3. At Face Value  89\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Scale\/Screen\u003cbr\u003e 4. Screens, Female Faces, and Modernities  135\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Location of the Image: Projection, Perspective, and Scale  189\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Concept of Immersion: Mediated Space, Media Space, and the Location of the Subject  239\u003cbr\u003e Notes  283\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  325\u003cbr\u003e Index  343","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408993460567,"sku":"9781478013563","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013563.jpg?v=1730505005","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bigger-than-life-9781478013563","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}