Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art Expanding Cinema

As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic medium - and their critique of what it is and has been? In Theorizing Cinema Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema leading film theorists consider artworks that incorporate restage and re-present cinema's configuration of the key categories of space experience presence/absence production and consumption technology myth perception event and temporality so interrogating the creation appraisal and evolution of film theory as channeled through contemporary art. This book takes film theory as a blueprint for the moving image and juxtaposes it with artworks that render cinema as a material object. In the process it unfolds a complex relationship between a theory and a practice that have commonly been seen as virtually incompatible renewing our understanding of each and more to the point their interactions. |Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art Expanding Cinema