Description
Book SynopsisExplores the boundary between cinema and photography. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments, this book addresses issues of indexicality, medium specificity, and hybridity as they examine how cinema and photography have developed and defined themselves.
Trade Review“
Still Moving engages new debate in a field central and crucial to cinema, media, and cultural studies. The collection explores the nature of photography and cinema both before and after the advent of digital media. As a result, some stunning work—on acceleration and simulation, on filming and editing in photographic and electronic media, on the fortunes of memory and oblivion, and on the dialogue and conflict of technologies—emerges from the tension of still and moving images.”—
Tom Conley, author of
Cartographic Cinema“
Still Moving maps out various interesting directions, trends, and tendencies inspired by the fact that moving-image media are losing their coherence, spinning out and recombining in interesting ways. In doing so, it opens up a number of fresh paths for examining what film and photography, as well as cinema studies and art history, will become. It will be widely read and discussed in the worlds of art and film, the classroom, the museum, and the gallery.”—
D. N. Rodowick, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction / Karen Beckman and Jean Ma 1
One. Beyond Referentiality
1. What's the Point of an Index? or, Faking Photographs / Tom Gunning 23
2. "The Forgotten Image between Two Shots": Photos, Photograms, and the Essayistic / Timothy Corrigan 41
3. Structural Film: Noise / Juan A. Suárez 62
Two. Nation, Memory, History
4. An Essay on
Calendar / Atom Egoyan 93
5. Photography's Absent Times / Jean Ma 98
6. The Idea of Still / Rececca Baron, interviewed by Janet Sarbanes 119
7. Crash Aesthetics:
Amores Perros and the Dream of Cinematic Mobility / Karen Beckman 134
8. Surplus Memories: From the Slide Show to the Digital Bulletin Board to Jim Mendiola's
Speeder Kills / Rita Gonzalez 158
Three. Working Between Media
9. Photography's Expanded Field / George Baker 175
10.
Weekend Campus / Nancy Davenport 189
11.
Aleph Beat: Wallace Berman between Photography and Film / Louis Kaplan 196
12. Mental Images: The Dramatization of Psychological Disturbance / Zoe Beloff 226
13. Concerning "the Photographic" / Raymond Bellour 253
References 277
Contributors 293
Index 297
