Death 24x a Second by Laura Mulvey
Addresses some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship and narrative. This title proposes that with the arrival of new technologies and new ways of experiencing the cinematic image, films hidden stillness comes to the fore, thereby acquiring a new accessibility and visibility.
elegiac.. a wonderful close analysis. Despite the melancholy in cinema's enounters with a fleeting past, the prospects opened up by filmic slowness are, for Mulvey, productive of optimism. Times Higher Education Supplement Rethinking the fundamentals of fim history through modern audiovisual technology Independent on Sunday Mulvey ... continues to provoke new ways of seeing - or re-seeing - the cinema we think we know. Film Comment Death 24x a Second takes up both the challenge to critical thinking represented by new technological developments, and the impulse towards reflection on film's past that they have occasioned ... a thoughtful book. New Left Review
Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London and the author of Visual and Other Pleasures (1989), Fetishism and Curiosity (1996) and Death 24x a Second (Reaktion, 2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781861892638 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861892632 |
| Title | Death 24x a Second |
| Author | Laura Mulvey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2005-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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