Murray Pomerance: Light Thoughts, Gebunden
Light Thoughts
- Image, Reverie, Memory
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 01/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9798765167588
- Item number:
- 12381860
- Volume:
- 328 Pages
- Weight:
- 503 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 28 mm
- Release date:
- 8.1.2026
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Light Thoughts is about the interaction of thought between the spectator and the film in cinema; not just a matter of describing the play of a film as a thought process, but rather of formulating ideas about this interaction through detailed analysis of what is actually seen and heard in the cinema.
The chapters include explorations of: gaffes in performance, harmonized activity, and so-called "unison" action; the sale of gender roles and attitudes surreptitiously; the viewer's way of (relentlessly) traveling forward through film; human gesture and the variant forms of comprehension it inspires; the cinematic onlooker-she who sees another person onscreen while we watch her seeing without knowing in any way how and what she takes in; the editorial technique of making the viewer wait for an explanation of what is being seen now; to long discussions of Antonioni, pointing to his camera movement in space and our affiliation with it; the problem of secrecy in cinematic narrative; the function and variability of the close-up insert; the problem of reading the image and handing the obvious; various confusions of narrative time; surveillance, doubt, and point of view; expression, meaning, and the face; and much more.
This book offers a series of original analyses of techniques used in films, which function as the basis for enhancing our understanding of cinema - if not as a medium specifically, then certainly as a medium used for telling stories and conveying the complexities of human character.
