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Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image

By Laura Mulvey

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
1861892632, 9781861892638
Open Library ID
OL22717332M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
918 kB (939853 bytes)
Pages
216\218
Topic
Economy
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Death 24x a Second is a fascinating exploration of the role new media technologies play in our experience of film. Addressing some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship, and narrative, Laura Mulvey here argues that such technologies, including home DVD players, have fundamentally altered our relationship to the movies. According to Mulvey, new media technologies give viewers the ability to control both image and story, so that movies meant to be seen collectively and followed in a linear fashion may be manipulated to contain unexpected and even unintended pleasures. The individual frame, the projected film’s best-kept secret, can now be revealed by anyone who hits pause. Easy access to repetition, slow motion, and the freeze-frame, Mulvey argues, may shift the spectator’s pleasure to a fetishistic rather than a voyeuristic investment in film. By exploring how technology can give new life to old cinema, Death 24x a Second offers an original reevaluation of film’s history and its historical usefulness. (20060501)

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