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Bigger than life : the close-up and scale in the cinema
- Title
- Bigger than life : the close-up and scale in the cinema / Mary Ann Doane.
- Author
- Doane, Mary Ann
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
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- Description
- xi, 356 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 23 cm
- Summary
- "In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close-up, particularly of the face, as grotesque and often horrifying, even as it sought to expose a character's interiority through its magnification of detail and expression. Today, large-scale technologies such as IMAX and sound surround strive to dissolve the cinematic frame and invade the spectator's space, "immersing" them in image and sound. The notion of immersion, Doane contends, is symptomatic of a crisis of location in technologically mediated space and a reconceptualization of position, scale, and distance. In this way, cinematic scale and its modes of spatialization and despatialization have shaped the modern subject, interpolating them into the incessant expansion of commodification"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The delirium of a minimal unit -- The cinematic manufacture of scale, or historical vicissitudes of the close-up -- At face value -- Screens, female faces, and modernities -- The location of the image : projection, perspective, and scale -- The concept of immersion : mediated space, media space, and the location of the subject.
- Call Number
- MFL 22-1126
- ISBN
- 9781478013563
- 1478013567
- 9781478014485
- 1478014482
- LCCN
- 2021011901
- OCLC
- 1240576634
- Author
- Doane, Mary Ann, author.
- Title
- Bigger than life : the close-up and scale in the cinema / Mary Ann Doane.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Doane, Mary Ann. Bigger than life. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021 9781478021780 (DLC) 2021011902
- Research Call Number
- MFL 22-1126