Cine-Dispositives: Essays in Epistemology Across Media (Film Culture in Transition)

This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositives - the Foucauldian concept of a strategic and technical configuration of practices and discourses - from the emergence of film studies as a field in the 1960s to more recent uses of the concept. In particular, the contributors confront points of view and perspectives in the context of the rise and spread of new technologies, changes that are continually altering the boundaries and the spaces of cinema and thus demand new analysis and theoretization. Contents Acknowledgments Questioning The Word “Dispositif” Foreword I. Dispositives Programs The Dispositive Does Not Exist! Between Knowing And Believing II. Dispositives Issues “You Do Not Even Know Where You Are” Marey And The Synthesis Of Movement Notes On The Bergsonian Cinematograph The Stereopticon And Cinema On Some Limitations Of The Definition Of The Dispositive “Cinema” The Moment Of The “Dispositif” The “Dispositive Effect” In Film Narrative III. Dispositives Histories The Social Imaginary Of Telephony Between Paradoxical Spectacles And Technical Dispositives Forms Of Machines, Forms Of Movement The Amateur-Dispositive Two Versions Of The Television Dispositive Reality Television As Dispositive: The Case Of French-Speaking Switzerland Dispositive And Cinepoetry, Around Foucault’S Death And The Labyrinth Archaeology And Spectacle About The Authors Index Of Titles Index Of Names This Collection Brings Together A Number Of Leading Scholars In Film Studies To Explore Viewing And Listening Dispositives – The Foucauldian Concept Of A Strategic And Technical Configuration Of Practices And Discourses. A Particular Goal Is To Confront Points Of View And Perspectives In The Contexts Of The Rise And Spread Of New Technologies, Changes That Are Altering The Boundaries And Spaces Of Cinema And That Thus Demand New Analysis And Theoretisation. Fran�cois Albera and Maria Tortajada are professors in the Department of History and Aesthetics of Film at the Universit�e de Lausanne in Switzerland and the editors of Cinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era François Albera and Maria Tortajada are professors in the Department of History and Aesthetics of Film at the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland and the editors of Cinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era

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