At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators

by Jean Ma

Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new territories as it designates ways of existing in the world, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520384512
• ISBN13: 9780520384514
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"