Projecting a Camera Language-Games in Film Theory

Name: Projecting a Camera Language-Games in Film Theory
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ISBN: 9780415942546

ISBN-10: 0415942543

ISBN-13: 9780415942546

Edition: 2006

Authors: Edward Branigan

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In Projecting a Camera, film theorist Edward Branigan offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding film theory. Why, for example, does a camera move? What does a camera "know"? (And when does it know it?) What is the camera's relation to the subject during long static shots? What happens when the screen is blank? Through a wide-ranging engagement with Wittgenstein and theorists of film, he offers one of the most fully developed understandings of the ways in which the camera operates in film. With its thorough grounding in the philosophy of spectatorship and narrative, Projecting a Camera takes the study of film to a new level. With the care and precision that he brought to Narrative…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Cover and Frontispiece Illustrations


Figures


Preface


Acknowledgments


Terminological Note



The Life of a Camera


The Death of the Author


A Camera as Impersonal Subject


How Should Analysis Proceed? Vertical Dissection versus Horizontal Intersection


Apercu: Things to Come



A Camera-in-the-Text



Camera Movement and Time



Camera Movement and Causality



Camera Movement and Scale


Anthropomorphism: Camera Movement and the Human Body


Point of View: Camera Movement and Subjectivity


Some Kinds of Movements: Camera Movement and Space


When Things Change: Camera Movement and Attention



What is a Camera?


Reworking the Question


Four Cameras: From Machine to Subject


Four More Cameras: From Psyche to Society


Mental Models and Gravity



How Frame Lines (and Film Theory) Figure


World, Language, Ambiguity


Some Radial Meanings of "Frame"


How Do We Think in the Cinema?


A Role for the Body - The Container Schema


Color as Container


Caesura and Suture


Envoi: The Indefinite Boundary


Coda: The Camera



When is a Camera?


Motion and Movement


Motion Picture


Camera Fiction


Releasing and Receiving


Sustaining and Other Causes


Wittgenstein


Mental Camera


When


Under Description


Language


Notes


Works Cited


Index