The Camera-eye Metaphor In Cinema (routledge Advances In Film Studies)

This Book Explores The Cultural, Intellectual, And Artistic Fascination With Camera-eye Metaphors In Film Culture Of The Twentieth Century. By Studying The Very Metaphor That Cinema Lives By, It Provides A Rich And Insightful Map Of Our Understanding Of Cinema And Film Styles And Shows How Cinema Shapes Our Understanding Of The Arts And Media. As Current New Media Technologies Are Attempting To Shift The Identity Of Cinema And Moving Imagery, It Is Hard To Overstate The Importance Of This Metaphor For Our Understanding Of The Modalities Of Vision. In What Guises Does The Camera Eye Continue To Survive In Media That Is Called New? Seeing-as -- Seeing Better And Seeing More -- Seeing And Writing -- Memory And Traces -- Gestures And Figures -- Roles And Models -- Minds And Screens -- Retrospective. Christian Quendler. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 223-240) And Index. Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Seeing-As -- Playing with the Senses -- Sensitive Paper and Visual Substance -- Mechanical Brains and Electronic Minds -- The Organic Camera Eye and Walter Benjamin's Optical Unconscious -- Convergent Theorizing in Jean-Louis Baudry's Apparatus Theory -- 2 Seeing Better and Seeing More -- Camera and Dispositif -- René Descartes and Dziga Vertov on Perfecting Vision -- Seeing Better with Vsevolod Pudovkin's Cartesian Camera Eye