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Early cinema’s touch(able) screens: From Uncle Josh to Ali Barbouyou

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility'

by Wanda Strauven Return of the rube? Last spring a ‘magic moment’ happened at an afternoon screening of Martin Scorsese’s 3D film Hugo (2011). When the end credits were scrolling across the huge screen-wall and the audience was leaving the auditorium, a little girl ran to the front. At first a bit hesitant, she reached […]

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Material properties of historical film in the digital age

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility'

by Barbara Flueckiger In his landmark study The Virtual Life of Film, David N. Rodowick rephrases André Bazin’s famous question ‘what is cinema?’ using the past tense: ‘what was cinema?’ He notes that, paradoxically, film studies is dealing with an object that no longer exists; it ceased existing as an object of study in the […]

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The care for opacity: On Tsai Ming-Liang’s conservative filmic gesture

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Features

by Erik Bordeleau A thin veneer of immediate reality is spread over natural and artificial matter, and whoever wishes to remain in the now, with the now, on the now, should please not break its tension film. – Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things 1. Transparent things The opening generic of Tsai Ming-Liang’s Face (2009) has just […]

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Beyond cognitive estrangement: The future of science fiction cinema

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Features

by Stephen Zepke Introduction Science fiction is about the future. This is an obvious thing to say, though its obviousness conceals a debate that has perhaps not yet taken place – a debate over the nature of this future. Science fiction generally takes the future to be self-evident; the future is ‘the day after tomorrow,’ […]

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Investigatory art: Real-time systems and network culture

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Features

by Edward A. Shanken [A]rtists are ‘deviation amplifying’ systems, or individuals who, because of psychological makeup, are compelled to reveal psychic truths at the expense of the existing societal homeostasis. With increasing aggressiveness, one of the artist’s functions […] is to specify how technology uses us. – Jack Burnham[1] Investigatory research has played a central […]

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Can you see yourself living here?: Structures of desire in recent British lifestyle television

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Features

by James Zborowski As part of her ‘attempt to establish the specificity of contemporary [lifestyle] programmes’[1] on British television, Charlotte Brunsdon identifies ‘a changing grammar of the close-up’[2] as an important element of what she argues is a tendency for these programmes to offer melodrama rather than realism.[3] Brunsdon argues that in the preceding ‘hobby’ […]

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The relocation of cinema

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Features

by Francesco Casetti[1] Tacita. In October 2011, the British artist Tacita Dean presented her work Film at the Tate Modern in London.[2] Dean’s installation is a film short projected in a continuous loop onto a large screen in a dark space furnished with seats for visitors. The written explication at the entrance to the room […]

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Editorial Necsus

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility'

In the second part of the much celebrated recent novel 2666 (Roberto Bolaño, 2004), a Chilean philosopher with an Italian surname teaching in a Northern Mexico university unexpectedly finds a book in his library: Testamento geométrico, a treatise on geometry written by a poet named Rafael Dieste. Amalfitano (the name of the philosopher) cannot recall […]

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