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In this volume, experts in film studies and art history take up the debate, begun by philosopher Walter Benjamin, about the power and scope of the image in a secular age.

Table of Contents
  • A Preface to Disputation (Dudley Andrew)
  • I. What Did Walter Benjamin See? Image Cultures, 1890-1933
    • Introduction (Dudley Andrew)
    • Beauty's Veils: The Ambivalent Iconoclasm of Kierkegaard and Benjamin (John Durham Peters)
    • Jules, Jim, and Walter Benjamin (Dudley Andrew)
    • Women on the Screens and Streets of Modernity: In Search of the Female Flaneur (Anke Gleber)
    • The Fair View: Female Spectators and the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (Lauren Rabinovitz)
    • Faces of Weimar Germany (Sabine Hake)
  • II. Traditional Arts and the Shock of This Century's Image
    • Introduction (Dudley Andrew)
    • The Cubist Image and the Image of Cubism (Jennifer Pap)
    • Pop Art/Pop Culture: Neo-Dada and the Politics of Plenty (Estera Milman)
    • (Re)Imaging the Grotesque: Francis Bacon's Crucifixion Triptychs (Robert Newman)
  • III. Vision and Interpretation after Photography
    • Introduction (Dudley Andrew)
    • The Variable Eye, or the Mobilization of the Gaze (Jacques Aumont, translated by Charles O'Brien and Sally Shafto)
    • The End of Cinema? An Afterword to Jacques Aumont's "The Variable Eye" (Charles O'Brien)
    • From the Captured Moment to the Cinematic Image: A Transformation in Pictorial Order (James Lastra)
    • Snapshots: The Beginnings of Photography (Robert B. Ray)
    • Immediate History: Videotape Interventions and Narrative Film (Timothy Corrigan)
  • About the Contributors

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/1997
      ISBN13: 9780292704763, 978-0292704763
      ISBN10: 0292704763

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this volume, experts in film studies and art history take up the debate, begun by philosopher Walter Benjamin, about the power and scope of the image in a secular age.

      Table of Contents
      • A Preface to Disputation (Dudley Andrew)
      • I. What Did Walter Benjamin See? Image Cultures, 1890-1933
        • Introduction (Dudley Andrew)
        • Beauty's Veils: The Ambivalent Iconoclasm of Kierkegaard and Benjamin (John Durham Peters)
        • Jules, Jim, and Walter Benjamin (Dudley Andrew)
        • Women on the Screens and Streets of Modernity: In Search of the Female Flaneur (Anke Gleber)
        • The Fair View: Female Spectators and the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (Lauren Rabinovitz)
        • Faces of Weimar Germany (Sabine Hake)
      • II. Traditional Arts and the Shock of This Century's Image
        • Introduction (Dudley Andrew)
        • The Cubist Image and the Image of Cubism (Jennifer Pap)
        • Pop Art/Pop Culture: Neo-Dada and the Politics of Plenty (Estera Milman)
        • (Re)Imaging the Grotesque: Francis Bacon's Crucifixion Triptychs (Robert Newman)
      • III. Vision and Interpretation after Photography
        • Introduction (Dudley Andrew)
        • The Variable Eye, or the Mobilization of the Gaze (Jacques Aumont, translated by Charles O'Brien and Sally Shafto)
        • The End of Cinema? An Afterword to Jacques Aumont's "The Variable Eye" (Charles O'Brien)
        • From the Captured Moment to the Cinematic Image: A Transformation in Pictorial Order (James Lastra)
        • Snapshots: The Beginnings of Photography (Robert B. Ray)
        • Immediate History: Videotape Interventions and Narrative Film (Timothy Corrigan)
      • About the Contributors

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