Film, Art, New Media: Museum Without Walls? : Museum Without Walls?

An anthology of essays exploring the relationship between film and art, within and across the domains of theory and practice, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Early Cinema, Film Theory, Visual Studies, Art History, Film, Painters and Filmmakers, Film, Museum, New Media. Editor - Angela Dalle Vacche, Professor of Film Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 Foreword......Page 11 Acknowledgments......Page 16 Notes on Contributors......Page 19 1 Introduction: A Cosmology of Contingency......Page 24 Part I: Early Cinema......Page 44 2 The Artist's Studio: The Affair of Art and Film......Page 46 3 Cézanne and the Lumière Brothers......Page 62 4 The Medium is a Muscle: Abstraction in Early Film, Dance, Painting......Page 80 Part II: Film Theory......Page 102 5 Vertov and the Line: Art, Socialization, Collaboration......Page 104 6 Quoting Motion: The Frame, the Shot, and Digital Video......Page 120 7 Malraux, Benjamin, Bazin: A Triangle of Hope for Cinema......Page 138 8 Poetic Density, Ontic Weight: Post-Photographic Depiction in Victor Erice's Dream of Light......Page 164 Part III: Visual Studies, Art History, Film......Page 180 9 Of the Face, In Reticence......Page 182 10 Remapping the Rural: The Ideological Geographies of Strapaese......Page 201 Part IV: Painters and Filmmakers......Page 220 11 Artistic Encounters: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, and Cézanne......Page 222 12 Two-Way Mirror: Francis Bacon and the Deformation of Film......Page 244 Part V: Film, Museum, New Media......Page 262 13 A Disturbing Presence? Scenes from the History of Film in the Museum......Page 264 14 Elegy, Eulogy, and the Utopia of Restoration—Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark......Page 279 15 Museums as Laboratories of Change: The Case for the Moving Image......Page 301 16 Right Here ... Right Now ... Art Gone Live!......Page 324 Index......Page 344 An anthology of essays exploring the relationship between film and art, within and across the domains of theory and practice, from the late nineteenth century to the present. In the footsteps of Andre Bazin, this anthology of 15 original essays argues that the photographic origin of twentieth-century cinema is anti-anthropocentric. Well aware that the twentieth century stands out as the only period in history with its own photographic film record for posterity, Angela Dalle Vacche has convened international scholars at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and asked them to rethink the history and theory of the cinema as a new model for the museum of the future. By exploring the art historical tropes of face and landscape, and key areas of film studies such as early cinema, Soviet film theory, documentary, the avant-garde and the newly-born genre of the museum film, this collection includes detailed discussions of installation art, and close analyses of media relations which range from dance to painting to performance art. Thanks to the title of Andre Malraux's famous project, Film, Art, New Media: Museum Without Walls? invites readers to reflect on the museum of the future, where twentieth-century cinema will play a pivotal role by interrogating the relation between art and science, technology and nature, from the side of photography in dialogue with digitalization