portada The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship (en Inglés)

The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Therese Davis

Editorial

Intellect (UK)

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

122

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23x17.3x0.8 cm

Peso

0.18 kg.

ISBN

1841500844

ISBN13

9781841500843

N° edición

0002

Categorías

Historia, teoría y crítica cinematográfica
Estudios sobre medios

The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship (en Inglés)

Therese Davis (Autor) · Intellect (UK) · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 16 a 22 días háb.

$ 100.06$ 50.03

-50%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan 50 unidades

$ 50.03

Llega entre el 15 Sep y el 25 Sep a Quito, Pichincha. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship (en Inglés)"

There was a time in screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image... The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces have reduced the face to a banal image, while the dream of early film theorists that the 'giant severed heads' of the screen could reveal 'the soul of man' to the masses is long since dead. And yet the end of this dream opens up the possibility for a different view of the face on the screen. The aim of the book is to seize this opportunity to rethink the facial close-up in terms other than subjectivity and identity by shifting the focus to questions of death and recognition. In doing so, the book proposes a dialectical reversal or about-face. It suggests that we focus our attention on the places in contemporary media where the face becomes unrecognisable, for it is here that the facial close-up expresses the powers of death. Using Walter Benjamin's theory of the dialectical image as a critical tool, the book provides detailed studies of a wide range of media spectacles of faces becoming unrecognisable. It shows how the mode of recognition enabled by these faces is a shock experience that can open our eyes to the underside of the mask of self - the unrecognisable mortal face of self we spend our lives trying not to see. Turning on itself, so to speak, the face exposes the fragile relationship between social recognition and facial recognizability in the images-cultures of contemporary media.