Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film

Humor & Entertainment

Wees, William C.

Movies

University of California Press

To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing that are truer to actual human vision. Beginning with the proposition that the images of cinema and vision derive from the same basic elements—light, movement, and time—Wees argues that cinematic apparatus and human visual apparatus have significant properties in common. For that reason they can be brought into a dynamic, creative relationship which the author calls the dialectic of eye and camera. The consequences of this relationship are what Wees explores. Although previous studies have recognized the visual bias of avant-garde film, this is the first to place the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film in a long-standing, multidisciplinary discourse on vision, visuality, and art.

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Literature & Fiction

Manchester University Press

Vorticism and the English avant-garde

University of Toronto Press

Art Studies, English Studies, Social History

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Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Anthology Film Archives

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