Overview

This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century. By studying the very metaphor that cinema lives by, it provides a rich and insightful map of our understanding of cinema and film styles and shows how cinema shapes our understanding of the arts and media. As current new media technologies are attempting to shift the identity of cinema and moving imagery, it is hard to overstate the importance of this metaphor for our understanding of the modalities of vision. In what guises does the ""camera eye"" continue to survive in media that is called new?

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Author:   Christian Quendler (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367873271

ISBN 10:   0367873273
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Seeing-As Playing with the Senses Sensitive Paper and Visual Substance Mechanical Brains and Electronic Minds The Organic Camera Eye and Walter Benjamin’s Optical Unconscious Convergent Theorizing in Jean-Louis Baudry’s Apparatus Theory 2. Seeing Better and Seeing More Camera and Dispositif René Descartes and Dziga Vertov on Perfecting Vision Seeing Better with Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Cartesian Camera Eye Seeing More with Vertov’s Kino-Eye 3. Seeing and Writing Dziga Vertov’s Poetic Map of A Sixth Part of the World The Literary Notebooks of Luigi Pirandello’s Silent Camera Operator The Sound Image of John Dos Passos’ Camera Eye Christopher Isherwood’s Camera Eye on Stage and Screen 4. Memory and Traces A Series of Dated Traces Margarete Böhme’s The Diary of a Lost One Filming the Diary of a Lost Girl William Keighley’s Journal of a Crime Cinema as Paper Formatted in Time 5. Gestures and Figures Embodied Gestures and Textual Figures Autopsy and Autography Cinematic Discovery of the Self Filmic Bodies and Figures in Narrative Film Theory From Lady in the Lake to La Femme défendue 6. Roles and Models Personal Cinema as Institution, Medium and Genre From Psychodrama to Life Models Animating the Self in Jerome Hill’s Film Portrait Stan Brakhage’s Metaphors and Art of Vision Brakhage’s Development of Camera Consciousness The Eye Body and the Body Politic in Carolee Schneemann’s Expanded Cinema 7. Minds and Screens Bruce Kawin and Gilles Deleuze on Camera Consciousness Visionary Agents in Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and Bertrand Tavernier’s Death Watch Enacted Vision

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The metaphor of camera as eye is fundamental to both everyday discussion as well as more academic theories of cinema: it is a pervasive metaphor through which we understand cinema on several levels. Christian Quendler's detailed study of the camera-eye metaphor is therefore a significant and erudite contribution to scholarship. But, more than this, Quendler's study takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to this metaphor. The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema is not dogmatic in limiting itself to one or two theoretical positions; far from it. This book encompasses a broad array of theoretical approaches - from the philosophy of mind to art theory, narratology, and gender studies. It therefore has a potentially wide appeal, not only in film studies, but also cultural and media studies more generally. - Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University, UK

""The metaphor of camera as eye is fundamental to both everyday discussion as well as more academic theories of cinema: it is a pervasive metaphor through which we understand cinema on several levels. Christian Quendler’s detailed study of the camera-eye metaphor is therefore a significant and erudite contribution to scholarship. But, more than this, Quendler’s study takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to this metaphor. The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema is not dogmatic in limiting itself to one or two theoretical positions; far from it. This book encompasses a broad array of theoretical approaches – from the philosophy of mind to art theory, narratology, and gender studies. It therefore has a potentially wide appeal, not only in film studies, but also cultural and media studies more generally."" – Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Author Information

Christian Quendler is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is the author of From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction and Interfaces of Fiction.

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