Author: Burch, Noel
Title: Life to those Shadows
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, (2), 317 pp. Textual Photos. Corner bumps, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ A "critique of the assumptions underlying 'classical' approaches to film history: the assumption that...the language of film was a natural, organic development, that it lay from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting for the prescient pioneers to bring it into being; and... that this language was a universal, neutral medium...His major thesis is that,on the contrary, film language has a social & economic history..." [ -dustwrapper blurb]. Contents: Charles Baudelaire versus Doctor Frankenstein; Life to those Shadows; The Wrong Side of the Tracks; Those Gentlemen of the Lantern & the Parade; Business is Business: An Invisible Audience; Passions & Chases - A Certain Linearisation; Building a Haptic Space; A Primitive Mode of Representation?; The Motionless Voyage: Constitution of the Ubiquitous Subject; Beyond the Peephole, the Logos; Narrative, Diegesis: Thresholds, Limits; Conclusion.

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