02569cam a2200337 i 4500 23395899 KeNaZET 20260720115412.0 231127s2024 nyua b 001 0 eng 2023049233 9798765107263 (hardback) 9798765107270 (paperback) 9798765107287 (ebook) 9798765107294 (pdf) 23395899 DLC eng rda KeNaZET DLC pcc PN1998.3 .A54 2024 Anger, Jiří 1990- author. 29027 Towards a film theory from below: archival film and the aesthetics of the crack-up/ by Jiří Anger. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2024. x, 216 p.: ills.; 23 cm. Thinking media ; [21] Includes bibliographical references and index. What is film theory from below? -- Keep that image burning : The color veil and the cinema that never stops ending -- Do archivists dream of electric horses?Static electricity and the quadruple logic of indexicality -- Trembling meaning : Camera instability and transduction in archival moving images -- The milestone that never happened : The scratched kiss and the failed beginning of Czech cinema -- Touching the film object with surgical gloves : Frankensteinian frames and the fragile malleability of cinematic faces -- Shaping the unshapeable?Videographic deformation and the first frames of czech cinema. "This book explores the weird shapes that emerge when material elements interact with figurative content of the moving image. Employing the digitized first Czech films by Jan Kríženecký prompted the questions: is it possible to do film theory from below, from the perspective of a film object? Could we treat accidents in moving images as full-fledged actors with distinctive aesthetic forms and functions? In these films, analog elements impinge upon the form and content of the moving images to create generative figures and shapes. Using digital technology, we can isolate these features and experiment with how they can be reimagined"-- Online version: Anger, Jiří, 1990- Towards a film theory from below New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9798765107287 (DLC) 2023049234 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK PN1998.3 .A54 2024 PN1998.3 .A54 2024 10135 10135 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC ZER ZER GEN 2026-07-16 Purchase 11838 0 PN1998.3 .A54 2024 z013568 2026-07-20 11:55:33 C1 2026-07-20 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC ZER ZER GEN 2026-07-16 Purchase 11839 0 PN1998.3 .A54 2024 z013569 2026-07-20 11:55:00 C.2 2026-07-20 BK