Still moving
Subtitle: between cinema and photography
By: Karen Beckman and Jean Ma, editors.
Contributors: Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971-; Ma, Jean, 1972-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780822341314; 9780822341550
Subjects: Motion pictures; Photography; Installations (Art)
Description: "In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those in the field of art history confronting the ubiquity of film, video, and the projected image in contemporary art practice. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments, the contributors to this volume address issues of indexicality, medium specificity, and hybridity as they examine how cinema and photography have developed and defined themselves through and against one another. Foregrounding the productive tension between stasis and motion, two terms inherent to cinema and to photography, the contributors trace the shifting contours of the encounter between still and moving images across the realms of narrative and avant-garde film, photography, and installation art. Still Moving suggests that art historians and film scholars must rethink their disciplinary objects and boundaries, and that the question of medium specificity is a necessarily interdisciplinary question. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors take up that challenge, offering new ways to think about what contemporary visual practice is and what it will become."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.