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The Intervals of Cinema

By John Howe , Jacques Ranciere

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2014
ISBN
1781686068, 9781781686065
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1946543 bytes)
Pages
160\157
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-05-06 11:55:01

Description

Cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière looks at cinematic art in comparison to its corollary forms in literature and theatre. From literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing literature’s images and philosophy; and film rejects theatre, while also fulfilling theatre’s dream. Built on these contradictions, the cinema is the real, material space in which one is moved by the spectacle of shadows. Thus, for Rancière, film is the perpetually disappointed dream of a language of images.

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