Béla Balázs, writing in the 1920s, declared,“At present a new discovery, a new machine, is
at work to turn the attention of men back to a visual culture and give them new faces.” 1 This …

Savage Theory articulates the powerful mythology of cinema as the premier medium for
magic in modern times. Envisioning the cinema as a form of magical ritual that possesses …

In Mapping the Moving Image, Pasi Valiaho offers a compelling study of how the medium of
film came to shape our experience and thinking of the world and ourselves. By locating the …

How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Robert B. Ray Foreword
by James Naremore Challenges accepted ideas about film and cultural studies. In the …

In the footsteps of Andre Bazin, this anthology of 15 original essays argues that the
photographic origin of twentieth-century cinema is anti-anthropocentric. Well aware that the …

Tom Gunning The Whole Town's Gawking: Early Cinema and the Visual Experience of
Modernity From my perspective, the essential gesture of the recent reexamination of the …

Introduction n the summer of 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce of Chalon-sur-I Sa6ne,
France, succeeded in developing a primitive form of the I photographic process by exposing …

More than fifteen years ago, in a paper delivered to the colloquium on film history at Cerisy,
André Gaudreault and I borrowed a phrase from literary cri tic Hans Robert Jauss and …

Most of the reflections on films and filmmaking in this book were written in the intervals
between days and weeks of filming. For that reason they tend to focus on the immediacy of …

Kaja Silverman (b. 1947) is Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Professor of Contemporary Art at
the University of Pennsylvania. Silverman's early work was inspired by a combination of …