The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera

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Synopsis
The Lure of the Image shows how a close study of camera movement challenges key assumptions underlying a wide range of debates within cinema and media studies. Highlighting the shifting intersection of point of view and camera position, Daniel Morgan draws on a range of theoretical arguments and detailed analyses across cinemas to reimagine the relation between spectator and camera—and between camera and film world. With sustained accounts of how the camera moves in films by Fritz Lang, Guru Dutt, Max Ophuls, and Terrence Malick and in contemporary digital technologies, The Lure of the Image exposes the persistent fantasy that we move with the camera within the world of the film and examines the ways that filmmakers have exploited this fantasy. In so doing, Morgan provides a more flexible account of camera movement, one that enables a fuller understanding of the political and ethical stakes entailed by this key component of cinematic style.
Copyright:
2021

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
306 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780520975446
Related ISBNs:
9780520344259, 9780520344273
Publisher:
University of California Press
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Copyrighted By:
Daniel Morgan
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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