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Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? This book situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. It examines film's nature as a medium in an age obsessed with immediacy, nearness, and accessibility.

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"Casetti's writing is erudite, elegant, insightful, and with its repeated direct address to the reader, seductively dialogic and alluringly didactic." -- Sabine Hake, H-German

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Acknowledgments A Hundred Years, A Century 1. The Gaze of Its Age 2. Framing The World 3. Double Vision 4. The Glass Eye 5. Strong Sensations 6. Glosses, Exymorons, And Discipline Remains of the Day Notes Bibliography

Eye of the Century

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 14 May 2008
      ISBN-13 9780231139946
      978-0231139946
      ISBN-10 0231139942
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? This book situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. It examines film's nature as a medium in an age obsessed with immediacy, nearness, and accessibility.

      Trade Review
      "Casetti's writing is erudite, elegant, insightful, and with its repeated direct address to the reader, seductively dialogic and alluringly didactic." -- Sabine Hake, H-German

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments A Hundred Years, A Century 1. The Gaze of Its Age 2. Framing The World 3. Double Vision 4. The Glass Eye 5. Strong Sensations 6. Glosses, Exymorons, And Discipline Remains of the Day Notes Bibliography

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