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The spectral realm at the boundaries of images incessantly reveals a desire to see beyond the visible and its medium: screens, frames, public displays, and projection sites in an art context. The impact of new media on art and film has influenced the material histories and performances (be they in theory or practice) of images across the disciplines. Digital technologies have not only shaped post-cinematic media cultures and visual epistemologies, but they are behind a growing shift towards a new realism in theory, art, film, and in the art of the moving image in particular. Technology and Desire examines the performative ontologies of moving images across the genealogies of media and their aesthetic agency in contemporary media and video art, CGI, painting, video games, and installations. Drawing on cultural studies, media and film theory as well as art history to provide exemplary evidence of this shift, this book has as its central theme the question of whether images are predicated upon transgressing the boundaries of their framing—and whether in the course of their existence they develop a life of their own.

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Author:   Rania Gaafar ,  Martin Schulz
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781841504612

ISBN 10:   1841504610
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   15 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction  Post-medial Technologies of Desire: Performances of Images – Rania Gaafar and Martin Schulz Prelude  Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls, or the Sudden Disorganization of Boundaries – Anselm Franke PART I: Post-Medial Image Cultures and New Media Philosophies 75 Chapter 1: Technical Repetition and Digital Art, or Why the ‘Digital’ in Digital Cinema is not the ‘Digital’ in Digital Technics – Mark B. N. Hansen Chapter 2: Arrest and Movement – Timothy Druckrey Chapter 3: The Aesthetics of Flow and the Aesthetics of Catharsis – Jay David Bolter Chapter 4: Digital Images and Computer Simulations – Barbara Flueckiger Chapter 5: Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics, or the Unthought at the Heart of Wood – Laura U. Marks PART II: Fugitive Images and Transmediality Chapter 6: Animated and Animating Landscapes: Space Voyages and Time Travel in the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Martin Schulz Chapter 7: Copernicus and I: Revolutions in Perception and The Powers of Ten – Janet Harbord Chapter 8: Cinema Mise en abyme: Contingencies of the Moving Image – Ursula Frohne Chapter 9: Still Life in the Crosshairs, or For an Iconic Turn in Game Studies – Thomas Hensel Chapter 10: Out of Image – Yvonne Spielmann PART III: Post-Cinematic Desires: Genealogies of Anthropomorphic Transgressions  Chapter 11: Choreographing the Moving Image: Post-Cinematic Desire and the Politics of Aesthetics – Isaac Julien Chapter 12: Desire, Time and Transition in Anthropological Film-making – Ute Holl Chapter 13: Longing in Film: Emotions in Images – Hinderk M. Emrich Chapter 14: The Fever Curve of the Gaze and the Body as (Image) Medium: Jacques Lacan’s Media Theory of Unconscious Desire – Annette Bitsch PART IV: Material Specters and the Lives of Images Chapter 15: The Sequence Image Between Motion and Stillness – Jens Schröter Chapter 16: Gaze and Withdrawal: On the ‘Logic’ of Iconic Structures – Dieter Mersch Chapter 17: The Magical Image in Georges Méliès’s Cinema – Lorenz Engell Chapter 18: Liminal Spaces: Notes by Film-maker and Artist Malcolm Le Grice – Malcolm LeGrice Chapter 19: Transgression: The Ethical Turn and the New Politics – Fatih Akin’s Cinema and the Multicultural Dilemma – Thomas Elsaesser Chapter 20: Radicant Spaces of Enunciation: Visual Art, ‘Phenomenotechnique’, and ‘Criticality’ – Towards a Postcolonial Media(l) Theory – Rania Gaafar Biographies of Authors

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Rania Gaafar is currently researcher and PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. Martin Schulz is a Visiting Professor at Kunstakademie Karlsruhe.

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