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Informationen zum Autor Karen Beckman is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Film Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism, also published by Duke University Press.Jean Ma is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Klappentext A collection of essays that discuss the relationship of film and photography, with a focus on medium specificity. Zusammenfassung Explores the boundary between cinema and photography. Engaging still! moving! and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments! this book addresses issues of indexicality! medium specificity! and hybridity. It examines how cinema and photography have developed and defined themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Karen Beckman and Jean Ma 1 One. Beyond Referentiality 1. What's the Point of an Index? or, Faking Photographs / Tom Gunning 23 2. "The Forgotten Image between Two Shots": Photos, Photograms, and the Essayistic / Timothy Corrigan 41 3. Structural Film: Noise / Juan A. Suárez 62 Two. Nation, Memory, History 4. An Essay on Calendar / Atom Egoyan 93 5. Photography's Absent Times / Jean Ma 98 6. The Idea of Still / Rececca Baron, interviewed by Janet Sarbanes 119 7. Crash Aesthetics: Amores Perros and the Dream of Cinematic Mobility / Karen Beckman 134 8. Surplus Memories: From the Slide Show to the Digital Bulletin Board to Jim Mendiola's Speeder Kills / Rita Gonzalez 158 Three. Working Between Media 9. Photography's Expanded Field / George Baker 175 10. Weekend Campus / Nancy Davenport 189 11. Aleph Beat: Wallace Berman between Photography and Film / Louis Kaplan 196 12. Mental Images: The Dramatization of Psychological Disturbance / Zoe Beloff 226 13. Concerning "the Photographic" / Raymond Bellour 253 References 277 Contributors 293 Index 297...
