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i) Focus and contemporary film style. Shallow focus, blur, lens flare and micro close-ups are increasingly prevalent in contemporary film. Films such as Wuthering Heights (2011), American Honey (2016), Revenge (2017) and Madeline’s Madeline (2018), for instance, all make extensive use of such devices – though they can be found in many ...
- I. Collapsed Seeing‐In
- II. The Significance of Collapsed Seeing‐In
- III. Collapsed Photographic Seeing
- IV. Does Photographic Experience Collapse and Would It Matter If It did?
Cinema is a pictorial art. Whatever else it involves (sound, narrative structures, and the like), it involves pictures. More, those pictures are fundamental to what cinema represents. What a film represents is almost always in part a matter of what it depicts, and what it depicts cannot be reduced to what it represents in other ways. Where there ar...
Does it matter whether seeing‐in collapses? In Sections III and IV, I explore a possible ramification of this collapse. That, if it obtains, would certainly be of significance, and so, therefore, would be the collapse in seeing‐in that opens the way to it. In this section, however, I explore one way in which collapse might be significant independen...
The collapse of seeing‐in might open the way to a further phenomenon. Our experience of still pictures divides, so as to create two subspecies of seeing‐in. We experience photographs differently from handmade pictures such as drawings and paintings. Although there are various accounts of what is special about our experience of photographs, there is...
If we did have collapsed photographic experience of film, this would be an aesthetically significant fact about cinema. Although I've not committed myself on what exactly photographic experience in general amounts to, it is plausible that, if there is such a phenomenon, it matters aesthetically. Our intimacy with or closeness to, or the apparent re...
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Film in the simple sense of the word refers to the technol-ogy of film (“Film,” n., def. 3b), which, prior to a digital age, was generally used to define form (as the term is used herein); and art implies a focus on the production form in addition to its resulting “text.”.
Jul 3, 2018 · Published: 03 July 2018. A psychology of the film. Ed S. Tan. Palgrave Communications 4, Article number: 82 ( 2018 ) Cite this article. 169k Accesses. 28 Citations. 66 Altmetric. Metrics....
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5 days ago · A film, also called a movie or a motion picture, is a series of still photographs on film projected onto a screen using light in rapid succession. The optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement.
- Films can be classified as documentaries, experimental films, animated films, and fictional genres such as westerns, comedies, thrillers, and music...
- Some of the world's major film festivals are the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Fes...
- Some of the major awards given for films are the Academy Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards, and the Césars.
May 23, 2024 · Film Journal International (earlier title: Film Journal) covers exhibition, production, and distribution, reporting both U.S. and international news, with features on industry trends, movie theater design and technology, screen advertising, and other topics.
Publish with us. This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies—that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films.
