Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image / Edition 1

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Overview

Death 24x a Second is a fascinating exploration of the role new media technologies play in our experience of film. Addressing some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship, and narrative, Laura Mulvey here argues that such technologies, including home DVD players, have fundamentally altered our relationship to the movies. 

According to Mulvey, new media technologies give viewers the ability to control both image and story, so that movies meant to be seen collectively and followed in a linear fashion may be manipulated to contain unexpected and even unintended pleasures. The individual frame, the projected film’s best-kept secret, can now be revealed by anyone who hits pause. Easy access to repetition, slow motion, and the freeze-frame, Mulvey argues, may shift the spectator’s pleasure to a fetishistic rather than a voyeuristic investment in film. 

By exploring how technology can give new life to old cinema, Death 24x a Second offers an original reevaluation of film’s history and its historical usefulness.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781861892638
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
  • Publication date: 3/1/2006
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 216
  • Sales rank: 910,896
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Laura Mulvey is professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the author of a number of books, including Visual and Other Pleasures and Fetishism and Curiosity.

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Table of Contents

1 Passing time 17
2 Uncertainty : natural magic and the art of deception 33
3 The index and the uncanny : life and death in the photograph 54
4 The death drive : narrative movement stilled 67
5 Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) 85
6 Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy / Viaggio in Italia (1953) 104
7 Abbas Kiarostami : cinema of uncertainty, cinema of delay 123
8 Delaying cinema 144
9 The possessive spectator 161
10 The pensive spectator 181
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