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This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositives - the Foucauldian concept of a strategic and technical configuration of practices and discourses - from the emergence of film studies as a field in the 1960s to more recent uses of the concept. In particular, the contributors confront points of view and perspectives in the context of the rise and spread of new technologies, changes that are continually altering the boundaries and the spaces of cinema and thus demand new analysis and theoretization.
List of contents
Acknowledgments[-]Questioning the Word "dispositif": Note on the Translation[-]Foreword[-]I. Dispositives : programs[-]François Albera, Maria Tortajada : The Dispositive Does Not Exist ![-]Thomas Elsaesser : Between Knowing and Believing:[-]The Cinematic Dispositive after Cinema[-]II. Dispositives : issues[-]Patrick Désile : "You do not even know where you are": Dispositive and Dizziness[-]Maria Tortajada : The Reconstruction of a Concept: Marey and the Synthesis of Movement[-]Elie During : Notes on the Bergsonian Cinematograph[-]Charles Musser : The Stereopticon and Cinema: Media Form or Platform?[-]André Gaudreault : On Some Limitations of the Definition of the Dispositive "Cinema"[-]Omar Haschemi, The Moment of the "Dispositif"[-]Philippe Ortel : The "Dispositive Effect" in Film Narrative[-]III. Dispositives : histories[-]Alain Boillat : The Social Imaginary of Telephony. Fictional Dispositives in Albert Robida's Le Vingtième Siècle and the Archeology of "Talking Cinema"[-]Laurent Guido : Between Paradoxical Spectacles and Technical Dispositives:[-]Looking Again at the Serpentine Dances of Early Cinema[-]Benoît Turquety : Forms of Machines, Forms of Movement[-]François Albera : The Amateur-Dispositive[-]Gilles Delavaud : Two Versions of the Television Dispositive[-]Charlotte Bouchez : Reality Television as Dispositive: The Case of French-Speaking Switzerland[-]Christophe Wall-Romana : Dispositive and Cinepoetry, around Foucault's Death and the Labyrinth[-]Viva Paci : Archaeology and Spectacle: Old Dispositives and New Objects for Surprised Spectators Stopping by the Museum[-]Authors[-]
About the author
Francois Albera and Maria Tortajada are professors in the Department of History and Aesthetics of Film at the Universite de Lausanne in Switzerland and the editors of "Cinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era."
