Film, art, new media museum without walls?

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Foreword......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Notes on Contributors......Page 19
1 Introduction: A Cosmology of Contingency......Page 24
Part I: Early Cinema......Page 44
2 The Artist\'s Studio: The Affair of Art and Film......Page 46
3 Cézanne and the Lumière Brothers......Page 62
4 The Medium is a Muscle: Abstraction in Early Film, Dance, Painting......Page 80
Part II: Film Theory......Page 102
5 Vertov and the Line: Art, Socialization, Collaboration......Page 104
6 Quoting Motion: The Frame, the Shot, and Digital Video......Page 120
7 Malraux, Benjamin, Bazin: A Triangle of Hope for Cinema......Page 138
8 Poetic Density, Ontic Weight: Post-Photographic Depiction in Victor Erice\'s Dream of Light......Page 164
Part III: Visual Studies, Art History, Film......Page 180
9 Of the Face, In Reticence......Page 182
10 Remapping the Rural: The Ideological Geographies of Strapaese......Page 201
Part IV: Painters and Filmmakers......Page 220
11 Artistic Encounters: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, and Cézanne......Page 222
12 Two-Way Mirror: Francis Bacon and the Deformation of Film......Page 244
Part V: Film, Museum, New Media......Page 262
13 A Disturbing Presence? Scenes from the History of Film in the Museum......Page 264
14 Elegy, Eulogy, and the Utopia of Restoration—Alexander Sokurov\'s Russian Ark......Page 279
15 Museums as Laboratories of Change: The Case for the Moving Image......Page 301
16 Right Here … Right Now … Art Gone Live!......Page 324
Index......Page 344