Between Film and Screen

by Stewart, Garrett

• ISBN13: 9780226774121
• ISBN10: 0226774120
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Photography might be called the lost cause of cinema, gone in projection and too soon forgotten. But what is the mysterious region between photography and narrative cinema, between the photogram--a single film frame--and 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 but also in its unexpected links to the early modernist writings of James, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and others. 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. 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Narrative Cinema as Film	1	(26)
Photo-gravure	27	(48)
Motion's Negative Imprint	75	(42)
Frame of Reference	117	(34)
Deaths Seen	151	(38)
The Photographic Regress of Science Fiction Film	189	(36)
Cinema's Victorian Retrofit	225	(40)
Modernism and the Flicker Effect	265	(50)
End Title/Exeunt	315	(22)
Notes	337	(42)
Index	379