Between Stillness and Motion
Film, Photography, Algorithms
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
Since the development of film as an artistic medium in the 1890s, there has been an inherent tension between still photographic images and moving cinematic images, from their form and function to the messages they convey and their impact on the beholder and on culture at large. This volume, one of the first book-length works to analyze, critique, and further the international debate about the meaning and use of motion and stillness in film and photography, takes these concepts out of the theoretical arena of cinematic studies and applies them to the wider and ever-changing landscape of images and media.
With contributions from such acclaimed international scholars as Tom Gunning, Thomas Elsaesser, Mark B. N. Hansen, George Baker, Ina Blom, and Christa Blümlinger, these collected essays examine the strategic uses of stillness and motion in art from the mid-nineteenth century to the technologically driven present.
Introduction
The Still/Moving Field: An Introduction
Eivind Røssaak
Philosophies of Motion
The Play between Still and Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century "Philosophical Toys" and Their Discourse
Tom Gunning
Digital Technics Beyond the "Last Machine": Thinking Digital Media with Hollis Frampton
Mark B. N. Hansen
The Use of Freeze and Slide Motion
The Figure of Visual Standstill in R. W. Fassbinder's Films
Christa Blümlinger
The Temporalities of the Narrative Slide Motion Film
Liv Hausken
The Cinematic Turn in the Arts
Stop/Motion
Thomas Elsaesser
After "Photography's Expanded Field"
George Baker
On On Otto: Moving Images and the New Collectivity
Ina Blom
The Algorithmic Turn
Mutable Temporality In and Beyond the Music Video: An Aesthetic of Post-Production
Arild Fetveit
Algorithmic Culture: Beyond the Photo/Film Divide
Eivind Røssaak
Archives in Between
"The Archives of the Planet" and Montage: The Movement of the Crowd and "the Rhythm of Life"
Trond Lundemo
General Bibliography
Contributors
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