Projecting a Camera: Language-Games in Film Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415942546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 456 str.

Edward Branigan

Opis

From a highly regarded film theorist, Projecting a Camera asks how we understand the work of this cinematic apparatus, and what our assumptions may be about the relation of the camera, to the story, to the viewer. Through a wide-ranging engagement with the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and classical and contemporary theorists of film, the book radically re-assesses a century of film theory and the language and ways through which our conceptions of film have been made. Edward Branigan explores a new and original way of conceiving film as a language by comparing film theorists' conceptions of the camera, its movement, and its framing and shows that the patterns are not projected through our linguistic behaviour, but also through embodied schematic description. Projecting a Camera looks at the proposed eight different functions for the camera, and through the presentation of two essays, offer students a philosophical and phenomenological approach to the study of this fascinating area.

Recenzje

"Projecting a Camera is not the type of book you can read in a weekend and then put aside. It offers a daunting challenge to our everyday, intuitive understanding of film and theoretical concepts. Its scope, breadth of argument and insights into film theory are simply breathtaking. Like Deleuze’s two cinema books (1986, 1989), it may take the discipline several years to come to terms with Branigan’s innovative perspective, to implement his original insights, and rethink film studies along the lines he proposes."--Warren Buckland, New Review of Film and Television Studies

O autorze

Edward Branigan is Director of Graduate Studies and a Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is an attorney. He is the author of Point of View in the Cinema and Narrative Comprehension and Film, which was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize in Cinema Studies.