Ex-Centric Cinema: Giorgio Agamben and Film Archaeology

by Janet Harbord

Book Overview

In the beginning, cinema was an encounter between humans, images and machine technology, revealing a stream of staccato gestures, micrographic worlds, and landscapes seen from above and below. In this sense, cinema's potency was its ability to bring other, non-human modes of being into view, to forge an encounter between multiple realities that nonetheless co-exist. Yet the story of cinema became (through its institutionalization) one in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628922419
• ISBN13: 9781628922417
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"