{"product_id":"blur-hardback-9781531511746","title":"Blur (Hardback) 9781531511746","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlur\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartine Beugnet (Author), Lindsay Turner (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531511746\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 February 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages, 14 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003e17.8 x 12.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.198 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Beugnet’s ingenious insights seep like a fog into once-crisp categories of film analysis, unsettling notions of blur as visual deficiency. Near-sighted characters, formless smudges, teary and weary vision, and perspectival and atmospheric distortions energize this compelling love song to the affordances of and cinematic predisposition toward visual chaos, vagueness, uncertainty and confusion. Clearly, it’s the perfect moment for both cinema and blur.\" – Karen Redrobe, author of \u003ci\u003eCrash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn cinema, blurriness is usually intended to go unnoticed. When it appears it is either considered an error – a mistake of focus or a technological failure – or a background effect of shallow focus intended to offset a defined image. As Martine Beugnet argues, however, blur is an essential feature of the cinema, possessing its own properties and affordances, and capable of powerful effects. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining an array of notable examples of blurriness from horror to art cinema and experimental film, and including the works of the Lumière brothers, Josef von Sternberg, Agnès Varda and many others, she develops a taxonomy of blurs, from speed and motion blur to the hand-held, \"shaky camera\" blur common in contemporary digital cinema. These wide-ranging instances all return the viewer to the sensorial and material qualities of the moving image.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the face of technological developments that valorize sharpness as an indicator of progress, blur stands as a provocative reminder of the value of uncertainty—a sign of the irreducible mystery at the heart of the filmic image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue (Myopia)   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Praise of Indistinction   7\u003cbr\u003eBlur’s Paradox: Images That Kill, 18 •\u003cbr\u003eHigh-Definition Blur, 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefinition   24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAesthetics of Blur   26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRain, Mist, Fog   29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocus   34\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Hitchcock: Blur, or the Staging of Desire, 36 •\u003cbr\u003eAlain Cavalier: Seeing Closer, 41 • Seeing [and]\u003cbr\u003eTouching, 43 • The Tactile Eye, 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMotion Blur   49\u003cbr\u003eSpeeds, 50 • Slow Motion [Jean-Luc Godard], 55 • \u003cbr\u003eShakiness [Sally Potter], 60 •\u003cbr\u003eInterlacings [Leighton Pierce], 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveries of the Image   68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotogénie \u003c\/i\u003eof Melancholy   75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Painterly and the Formless   82\u003cbr\u003ePictorialism [Josef von Sternberg], 82 • The Appeal of\u003cbr\u003eAbstraction [Michelangelo Antonioni], 89 •\u003cbr\u003eToward Formlessness, 92 • Limbo [Gus Van Sant], 94 • \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotogénie \u003c\/i\u003eof Memory, 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTechnology Has No Rules   103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFigures \u003c\/i\u003e  119\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619269767448,"sku":"9781531511746","price":44.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blur-hardback-9781531511746","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}