CiNii 図書 - Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture

Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically alters the interpretive frameworks offered by neo-formalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to a vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation such as project, intentionality and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries offers new directions for the study of visual culture.

Preface Acknowledgments I. Embodied Knowledge and the Politics of Location An Evocation II. The Trials and Tribulations of Rodney King III. At the Limits of Reality (TV) IV. The Ethnographer's Tale V. Performing Documentary VI. Eisenstein's Strike and the Genealogy of Documentary VII. Please, All you Good and Honest People Film Form and Historical Consciouness Notes Index

巻冊次: : hbk ISBN 9780253340641

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"Blurred Boundaries" explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's "Strike" to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, "Blurred Boundaries" radically alters the interpretive frameworks offered by neo-formalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to a vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation such as project, intentionality and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, "Blurred Boundaries" offers new directions for the study of visual culture.

Preface Acknowledgments I. Embodied Knowledge and the Politics of Location An Evocation II. The Trials and Tribulations of Rodney King III. At the Limits of Reality (TV) IV. The EthnographerOs Tale V. Performing Documentary VI. EisensteinOs Strike and the Genealogy of Documentary VII. Please, All you Good and Honest People Film Form and Historical Consciouness Notes Index

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