Body Shots: Early Cinema’s IncarnationsUniversity of California Press, 2007 M10 9 - 214 páginas This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake. Instead, as Jonathan Auerbach argues, it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, Auerbach begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display—both exceptional figures, such as 1896 presidential candidate William McKinley, and ordinary people caught by the movie camera in their daily routines. The result is a sharp, unique, and groundbreaking way to consider the turn-of-the-twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself. |
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... visual technology, its own complex conventions of intelligibility were in the midst of an uneven, nonlinear, and hesitant process of emergence. How do we read a film made at the turn of the twentieth century, for example, that has no ...
... visual technology, its own complex conventions of intelligibility were in the midst of an uneven, nonlinear, and hesitant process of emergence. How do we read a film made at the turn of the twentieth century, for example, that has no ...
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... visually assaulting and assaulted, "the cinema of attractions" thesis risks duplicating some of the pitfalls of apparatus theory. It is instructive in this respect to trace briefly how the "attractions" argument developed in Gunning's ...
... visually assaulting and assaulted, "the cinema of attractions" thesis risks duplicating some of the pitfalls of apparatus theory. It is instructive in this respect to trace briefly how the "attractions" argument developed in Gunning's ...
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... more ideological bite by showing how women's bodies in early cinema represented a specific kind of visual spectacle.13. Figure 1. A Subject for the Rogue's Gallery (1904). Figure 2. McKinley at Home ( 1896 ) . Introduction / 5.
... more ideological bite by showing how women's bodies in early cinema represented a specific kind of visual spectacle.13. Figure 1. A Subject for the Rogue's Gallery (1904). Figure 2. McKinley at Home ( 1896 ) . Introduction / 5.
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... visual shock as nonutilitarian, simply for its own sake (see chapter 1); its stark binary polarization between sensation and narration (see the interlude); and its version of film history (see chapter 3). But I regard these as ...
... visual shock as nonutilitarian, simply for its own sake (see chapter 1); its stark binary polarization between sensation and narration (see the interlude); and its version of film history (see chapter 3). But I regard these as ...
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... visual spectacles such as wax museums , dioramas , and department stores . However enlightening , these readings in some cases strike me as curiously conserva- tive in method , tracing precursor media along the lines of traditional ...
... visual spectacles such as wax museums , dioramas , and department stores . However enlightening , these readings in some cases strike me as curiously conserva- tive in method , tracing precursor media along the lines of traditional ...
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Part I Bodies in Public | 13 |
Sounding the Origins of Cinema | 63 |
Part II Bodies in Space | 83 |
The Stilled Body | 124 |
Notes | 137 |
Bibliography | 179 |
Index | 195 |
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Página 152 - Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind.
Página 49 - My sense of myself grows by imitation of you, and my sense of yourself grows in terms of my sense of myself. Both ego and alter are thus essentially social; each is a socius and each is an imitative creation.
Página 65 - I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear...
Página 47 - A self-idea of this sort seems to have three principal elements: the imagination of our appearance to the other person; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification.
Página 48 - The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves, but an imputed sentiment, the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.
Página 172 - The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
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Página 136 - lifelike" we strive to make it (and this frenzy to be lifelike can only be our mythic denial of an apprehension of death). Photography is a kind of primitive theater...
Página 136 - We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the Dead: to make oneself up was to designate oneself as a body simultaneously living and dead...