The Face on Film
The human face is a privileged arena of expressivity; yet, this book suggests, cinema's most radical encounters with the face give rise to ambiguity, illegibility--an equivocation between image and language. Braiding theoretical and aesthetic considerations with close analysis of films, Steimatsky interrogates the convergence of archaic powers and modern anxieties in our experience of the face on film.
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- Full title :The Face on Film.
Summary
The human face is a privileged arena of expressivity; yet, this book suggests, cinema's most radical encounters with the face give rise to ambiguity, illegibility--an equivocation between image and language. Braiding theoretical and aesthetic considerations with close analysis of films, Steimatsky interrogates the convergence of archaic powers and modern anxieties in our experience of the face on film.
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (297 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199863150, 0199863156
- oclc:ocn967881956
- LC Classification:PN1995.9.F27
- Dewey Decimal:791.4302
Table of Contents
Cover; The Face on Film; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Face Moving Image; A Dispositif; An Ur-Image; The Face Against the Image; Itineraries; 1. We Had Faces Then; Expressivity in the 1920s; Joan of Arc, Inevitably; The Face and its Voices; Glamour/Anti-Glamour; 2. Roland Barthes Looks at the Stars; Toward "Visages et figures"; Excursus on the Face in Language; Into the Movie Theater; Ultra-Face; Excursus on the Mask; From Cult to Charm: Funny Face; 3. Face-to-Face (with The Wrong Man); What Godard Saw; What the Clerk Saw; Excursus on Anthropometrics
Not a Mirror, Not a Lamp4. Pass/Fail: Screen Test, Apparatus, Subject; The Antonioni Screen Test; Excursus on a Star Portrait; Sitting for the Portrait is the Portrait; Outer and Inner Space, and the Pathos of Time; Fail Better; 5. In Reticence (Bresson); The Epidermal and the Written; The Image Against the Face; Not an Open Book, but a Door Ajar; Postface: The Two-Shot; Index of Names and Titles
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