"Cinema Beyond Film" elaborates on the theoretical uses of two key terms--"dispositif "and "episteme"--in order to examine their relationship as well as their larger connections to film, technology, and modernity. Although both terms originate in the work of Foucault, dispositif ("device") intrinsically links itself to the mechanics of movement and speed behind cinematics, while more generally referring to the mechanisms and structures that hold power in place. Episteme""("to know"), on the other hand, refers to the conditions and possibilities of knowledge and reception, more than to...
"Cinema Beyond Film" elaborates on the theoretical uses of two key terms--"dispositif "and "episteme"--in order to examine their relationship as we...
This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositives--the Foucauldian concept of a strategic and technical configuration of practices and discourses--from the emergence of film studies as a field in the 1960s to more recent uses of the concept. In particular, the contributors confront points of view and perspectives in the context of the rise and spread of new technologies--changes that are continually altering the boundaries and the spaces of cinema and thus demand new analysis and theoretization.
This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositives--the Foucauldian concept of...
