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Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not come 'naturally' to the moving image, and if there is one visual effect the eye of the camera can record better than the human eye it is blur. Looking beyond popular media to works of experimental cinema and video art, this groundbreaking collection addresses the aesthetics and politics of moving images in states of decay, distortion, indistinctness and fragmentation. A range of international scholars examines what is at stake in these images' sometimes radical foregrounding of materiality and mediation, or of evanescence and spectrality, as well as their challenging of the dominant position accorded to 'legible' images. How have artists and filmmakers rendered the 'indefinite' image, and what questions does it pose? With a range of approaches, from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies, the authors in this volume investigate techniques, themes and concepts that emerge from this wilful excavation of the moving image's material base.
Contents
Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty
Martine Beugnet - Introduction
Illuminations
Jacques Aumont - The Veiled Image: The Luminous Formless
Richard Misek - The Black Screen
Tom Gunning - Flicker and Shutter: Exploring Cinema's Shuddering Shadow
Definitions
Martin Jay - Genres of Blur
Giusy Pisano - In Praise of the Sound Dissolve: Evanescences, Uncertainties, Fusions, Resonances
Erika Balsom - 100 Years of Low Definition
Frames
Michel Chion - Jumps in Scale
Julian Hanich - Reflecting on Reflections: Complex Mirror Shots in Films
Christa Blümlinger - Cinematic Indeterminacy According to Peter Tscherkassky: Coming Attractions
Carol Vernallis - Baz Luhrmann's Audiovisual Sublime: Partying in The Great Gatsby
Temporalities
D.N.Rodowick - The Force of Small Gestures
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli - Bill Viola and the Cinema of Indefinite Bodily Experience
Catherine Fowler - Slow Looking: Confronting Moving Images with Didi-Huberman
Materialities
Kim Knowles - (Re)visioning Celluloid: Aesthetics of Contact in Materialist Film
Emmanuelle André - Seeing through the Fingertips
Raymond Bellour - Homo Animalis Kino
Glitches
Sean Cubitt - Temporalities of the Glitch: Déjà Vu
Steven Shaviro - The Glitch Dimension: Paranormal Activity and the Technologies of Vision
Allan Cameron - Facing the Glitch: Abstraction, Abjection and the Digital Image
