The Image in Dispute - Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography

List 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




Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dudley Andrew (Editor), Jacques Aumont (Editor), Robert Newman (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780292704763
• ISBN: 978-0-292-70476-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 744 g
• Series: University of Texas Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet