Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Andrew G. Taylor Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 256 ISBN: 9783659574214
Описание
Dead but still/moving… looks at the ‘still/moving’; that is, creative work in a space between still images (photography) and moving pictures (cinema). Recently there has been a wave of interest in the still/moving in installation art and feature films but there has been virtually no written commentary on the still/moving in documentary, and even less on the slide show and documentary. From magic lantern shows to PowerPoint presentations, the slide show has cast a long shadow on documentary film. In the 1880s the New York Police reporter, Jacob Riis, barnstormed America with magic lantern images of urban poverty; and in 2006, An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary woven around Al Gore’s slide show PowerPoint presentation, screened to audiences around the world. Dead but still/moving… looks at how the slide show has haunted documentary and reveals a pre-occupation still/moving films have with time, memory, mortality and death. The focus on the intersection between the slide show and...
