Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson (Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition)

Annette Michelson’s contributions to art and film criticism over the last three decades have been unparalleled. This volume honors her unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scholars who have been influenced by her work. Some continue her efforts to develop theoretical frameworks for understanding modernist art, while others practice her form of interdisciplinary criticism in relation to avant-garde and modernist art works and artists. Still others investigate and evaluate Michelson’s work itself. All in some way pay homage to her extraordinary contribution. Preface / Rosalind -- Introduction / Malcolm Turvey -- The Logic Of Illusion : Notes On The Genealogy Of Intellectual Cinema / Mikhail Iampolski -- Narcissistic Machines And Erotic Prostheses / Allen S. Weiss -- Loïe Fuller And The Art Of Motion : Body, Light, Electricity And The Origins Of History / Tom Gunning -- Visitings Of Awful Promise : The Cinema Seen From Etna / Stuart Liebman -- Transfiguring The Urban Gray : László Moholy-nagy's Film Scenario Dynamic Of The Metropolis / Edward Dimendberg -- Eisenstein's Philosophy Of Film / Noël Carroll -- Knight's Moves / Peter Wollen -- Hitchcock And Narrative Suspense : Theory And Practice / Richard Allen -- From The Air : A Genealogy Of Antonioni's Modernism / Noa Steimatsky -- Dr. Strangelove, Or, The Apparatus Of Nuclear Warfare / William G. Simon -- Collection And Recollection : On Film Itineraries And Museum Walks / Guiliana Bruno -- Afterward : A Matter Of Time : Analog Versus Digital, The Perennial Question Of Shifting Technology And Its Implications For An Experimental Filmmaker's Odyssey / Babette Mangolte. Edited By Richard Allen And Malcolm Turvey. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [275]-282) And Index. Annette Michelson's contribution to art and film criticism over the last three decades is unparalleled. This volume honors Michelson's unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scolars that have been influenced by her work. Some continue her efforts to develop theoretical frameworks for understanding modernist art, while others practice her form of interdisciplinary crtiticism in relation to avant-garde and modernist art works and artists. Still others investigate and evaluate Michelson's work itself. All in some way pay homage to het extraordinary contribution and demonstrate its continued centrality to the field of art and film criticism Content: Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction The Logic of an Illusion: Notes on the Genealogy of Intellectual Cinema Narcissistic Machines and Erotic Prostheses Loïe Fuller and the Art of Motion: Body, Light, Electricity, and the Origins of Cinema Visitings of Awful Promise: The Cinema Seen from Etna Transfiguring the Urban Gray: László Moholy-Nagy's Film Scenario 'Dynamic of the Metropolis' Eisenstein's Philosophy of Film Knight's Moves Hitchcock and Narrative Suspense: Theory and Practice From the Air: A Genealogy of Antonioni's Modernism.