Mapping the Moving Image
Gesture, Thought and Cinema circa 1900
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
In this multidisciplinary approach Pasi Väliaho draws from science and philosophy to offer a compelling study of how the medium of film has shaped our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Väliaho examines key films from the early twentieth century, tracing the role that various arrangements of movement have played in the development of corporeality, perception, and modes of thought in cinematic modernity.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rhythm
Gesture and Thought
Art, Science, Philosophy
1 Modulation: On Cinematic Gestures
Nervous Gestures
Detached Heads
Non-Human Observers
Penetrating the Nervous Apparatus
2 Experimental Life: The Biopolitical Context
Test Subject
Bare Life
Hysteria
Neuromimesis and Mutism
3 Umwelt: Automatism and Affectivity
Organ Projection
Automatism
Vitality Affects
The Open
4 Paradox-Image: Mapping the Unconscious
White Screen
Ruptures in Vision
Writing Pad
m & n
5 Differential Image: Abyss of Time
The Bridge
Schein
Imposition and Gramma
Lightning Image
6 Virtual Image: Cinema and Intuition
Cinematographical Mechanism
Indivisible Interval
Memory and Mirror
Continuum
Intuition
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Film Titles
Index of Subjects
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