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FFIILLMM CCUULLTTUURREE IN TRANSITION Between Stillness and Motion FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY, ALGORITHMS EDITED BY EIVIND RØSSAAK Amsterdam University Press BetweenStillnessandMotion Between Stillness and Motion Film, Photography, Algorithms Edited by Eivind Røssaak The publication of this book is made possible by a grant from the Norwegian ResearchCouncil. Frontcoverillustration:TobiasRehberger,OnOtto,filmstill(KimBasinger watchingTheLadyfromShanghai),.CourtesyFondazionePrada,Milan Backcoverillustration:StillfromGreggBiermann’sSphericalCoordinates () Coverdesign:KokKorpershoek,Amsterdam Lay-out:japes,Amsterdam isbn (paperback) isbn (hardcover) e-isbn nur ©E.Røssaak/AmsterdamUniversityPress, Allrightsreserved.Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreservedabove, nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrieval system,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans(electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise)withoutthewrittenpermissionofboth thecopyrightownerandtheauthorofthebook. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction TheStill/MovingField:An Introduction EivindRøssaak Philosophies of Motion The Play between Still and Moving Images:Nineteenth-Century “PhilosophicalToys” andTheir Discourse TomGunning Digital Technics Beyond the “LastMachine”:Thinking Digital MediawithHollisFrampton MarkB.N.Hansen The Use of Freeze and Slide Motion TheFigureofVisualStandstillinR.W.Fassbinder’sFilms ChristaBlümlinger TheTemporalitiesoftheNarrative SlideMotionFilm LivHausken The Cinematic Turn in the Arts Stop/Motion ThomasElsaesser After “Photography’s Expanded Field” GeorgeBaker OnOO:MovingImagesand theNewCollectivity InaBlom 6 BetweenStillnessandMotion The Algorithmic Turn Mutable Temporality In and Beyondthe MusicVideo: AnAesthetic ofPost-Production ArildFetveit Algorithmic Culture: Beyondthe Photo/FilmDivide EivindRøssaak Archives in Between “The Archives ofthe Planet” andMontage:TheMovementof theCrowd and“the RhythmofLife” TrondLundemo GeneralBibliography Contributors Acknowledgements This book would not have been possible without the help of many generous colleaguesand supportiveinstitutions.Mysincere thanksgotomyformercol- legues in the cross-disciplinary research project Media Aesthetics at the Univer- sity of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen: Liv Hausken, Ina Blom, Arild Fetveit,andSusanneØstbySæther.Theideaforthisbookwasbornanddevel- oped during this project. This research project was financed by the Norwegian Research Council and generously hosted by the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. Thanks also to the National Library of Norway for support in the book’s final stages. Most importantly, thanks to thecontributorsfortakingpartinthejointbookseminaratLysebuConference CenteroverlookingthewoodsofOsloin,wheretheseideaswereconsoli- dated and developed during lectures, presentations, conversations and idle talksintothenight.ThankyoualsototheSocietyofCinemaandMediaStudies forhostingseveralofthepapersattheirconferencesoverthepastdecade.Talks andconversationswithcolleaguesandstudentsattheseconferencesandatour respective universities and institutions also helped foster these ideas. Thanks alsotoChristianRefsum,NevenaIvanova,JihoonFelixKim,JonIngeFaldalen, D.N.Rodowick,W.J.T.Mitchell,MaryAnnDoaneandAlexanderGallowayfor inspirationandidletalks,andfinally,toThomasElsaesserformakingthispub- lishingprojectpossible.Thanksalsotoourtirelesscopyeditor,wordsmithKier- stenLeighJohnson. EivindRøssaak Oslo,BerlinandNewYork,March/April Introduction
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