Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film

Wees, William C.

ISBN 10: 0520073681 / ISBN 13: 9780520073685

Published by University of California Press, 1992

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Softcover;Some slight discoloration on the front pages at the edge and upper corner through page 10, most likely a water stain, but there is not obvious warping of pages; after that it is clean and unmarked, binding is solid.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520073681
• ISBN 13: 9780520073685
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 16 ounces

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Synopsis

To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing that are truer to actual human vision.

Beginning with the proposition that the images of cinema and vision derive from the same basic elements―light, movement, and time―Wees argues that cinematic apparatus and human visual apparatus have significant properties in common. For that reason they can be brought into a dynamic, creative relationship which the author calls the dialectic of eye and camera. The consequences of this relationship are what Wees explores.

Although previous studies have recognized the visual bias of avant-garde film, this is the first to place the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film in a long-standing, multidisciplinary discourse on vision, visuality, and art.

About the Author

William C. Wees is Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal. He has written articles for many film journals and has made several short experimental films.