Ex-centric Cinema : Giorgio Agamben and Film Archaeology Paperback / softback
by Janet (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Harbord
Part of the Thinking Cinema series
Paperback / softback
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In the beginning, cinema was an encounter between humans, images and machine technology, revealing a stream of staccato gestures, micrographic worlds, and landscapes seen from above and below.
In this sense, cinema's potency was its ability to bring other, non-human modes of being into view, to forge an encounter between multiple realities that nonetheless co-exist.
Yet the story of cinema became (through its institutionalization) one in which the human swiftly assumed centrality through the literary crafting of story, character and the expression of interiority.
Ex-centric Cinema takes an archaeological approach to the study of cinema through the writings of philosopher Giorgio Agamben, arguing that whilst we have a century-long tradition of cinema, the possibility of what cinema may have become is not lost, but co-exists in the present as an unexcavated potential.
The term given to this history is ex-centric cinema, describing a centre-less moving image culture where animals, children, ghosts and machines are privileged vectors, where film is always an incomplete project, and where audiences are a coming community of ephemeral connections and links.
Discussing such filmmakers as Harun Farocki, the Lumiere Brothers, Guy Debord and Wong Kar-wai, Janet Harbord draws connections with Agamben to propose a radically different way of thinking about cinema.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:20/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781628922417
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:20/10/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781628922417
