![]() ![]() To locate the exact repercussions of such effects, Stewart includes over three hundred frame enlargements drawn from genres as different as science fiction, film noir, and recent Victorian costume drama. Engaging the work of such media theorists as Eisenstein, Benjamin, Kracauer, Bazin, Baudry, Cavell, Deleuze, and Jameson, this study pursues the suppressed photogram as it ripples the narrative surface of several dozen films from Lang and Chaplin through Bergman, Coppola, and beyond. but also in its unexpected links to the early modernist writings of James, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and others. But what is the mysterious region between photography and narrative cinema, between the photogramâa single film frameâand the illusion of motion we recognize as the movies? In this ambitious, sophisticated study, Garrett Stewart discusses the photogram not only as the undertext of screen images. ![]() Photography might be called the lost cause of cinema, gone in projection and too soon forgotten.
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