The Intervals of Cinema

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism, Art & Architecture, General Art, Art Technique
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Author: Jacques Ranciere ISBN: 9781781686089
Publisher: Verso Books Publication: October 7, 2014
Imprint: Verso Language: English
Author: Jacques Ranciere
ISBN: 9781781686089
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication: October 7, 2014
Imprint: Verso
Language: English

Cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière looks at cinematic art in comparison to its corollary forms in literature and theatre. From literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing literature’s images and philosophy; and film rejects theatre, while also fulfilling theatre’s dream.

Built on these contradictions, the cinema is the real, material space in which one is moved by the spectacle of shadows. Thus, for Rancière, film is the perpetually disappointed dream of a language of images.

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Cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière looks at cinematic art in comparison to its corollary forms in literature and theatre. From literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing literature’s images and philosophy; and film rejects theatre, while also fulfilling theatre’s dream.

Built on these contradictions, the cinema is the real, material space in which one is moved by the spectacle of shadows. Thus, for Rancière, film is the perpetually disappointed dream of a language of images.

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