Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing

ISBN-13: 9781138319783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 158 str.

Asbjrn Grnstad; Henrik Gustafsson; Yvind Vagnes

Opis

The complex gestures of artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In  In this volume, contributors ask: How may one speak not only of the gestures of the body but also of the gestures of the image? What constitutes gesturality in the image and, more broadly, what are the gestures of the aesthetic itself? By thinking about images within this conceptual framework, this volume seeks to renew our understanding of the image.

Recenzje

"Gesture is a concept that is fundamental to the creation and reception of visual images. Locating our understanding of status and function of the image at the intersection of subject and object, the authors in this volume offer us insight into the way both the invisible and visible dimensions of the image play a role in the creation of meaning. This book is crucial to anyone interested in the philosophical study of the image." -- Keith Moxey, Barnard College, USA

O autorze

Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of visual culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. He is founding director of Nomadikon: The Bergen Center for Visual Culture and author/editor of several books in film studies and visual culture. He is also founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture. His most recent book is Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (co-edited with Henrik Gustafsson, 2014).

Henrik Gustafsson is Associate Professor of Media- and Documentation Science at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Recent publications include Cinema & Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (2014) and Ethics and Images of Pain (2012), both co-edited with Grønstad, and articles in History of Photography (February 2016) and Journal of Visual Culture (April 2013).　　

Øyvind Vågnes is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. Recent publications include "Lessons from the Life of an Image: Malcolm Browne's Photograph of Thich Quang Duc's Self-Immolation", in Frances Guerin, ed., On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (London: Routledge, 2015), and Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture　(2011), which received honorable mention at the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.