{"product_id":"the-evolution-of-film-rethinking-film-studies-hardback-9780745634739","title":"The Evolution of Film; Rethinking Film Studies (Hardback) 9780745634739","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Evolution of Film\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRethinking Film Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJanet Harbord (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745634739, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 January 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.1 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.367 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\"Harbord's is a major new voice in film studies, harking back to the classical film theory of Bazin, Kracauer and Epstein, and echoing forward into the twenty-first century. \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Film\u003c\/i\u003e makes a decisive contribution to the study of cinema, and to our understandings of the contemporary.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSean Cubitt, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Melbourne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow is film changing? What does it do, and what do we do with it? This book examines the reasons why we should be studying film in the twenty-first century, connecting debates from philosophy, anthropology and new media with historical concerns of film studies.  \u003cp\u003eWhen the common frameworks for studying film – the nation, identity, representation, Hollywood industry – have ceased to yield explanatory power, how do we conceive of film’s doings? In this fresh and innovative book, Janet Harbord argues that film no longer represents or stands in for particular cultures, but acts isomorphically, showing us how the world works. Film here is action, energy, matter, moving across space to forge connections, provide encounters, and create schisms in our knowledge of others. The book brings together key thinkers of the contemporary in an innovative exchange between film and theory. Marc Auge’s concept of ‘non-place’ is brought to bear on, and disrupt, the category of national cinema. Manuel DeLanda’s notion of morphogenesis frames an understanding of film as a process of constant evolution, in which the terms of change are immanent to matter itself. And the concept of inertia, from Paul Virilio’s work, allows us to comprehend the different energies of film. Arguing that there is no higher position from which to view the present, either in theory or in film, we move blindly and yet with faith, discovering the present frame by frame. The Evolution of Film demonstrates how this is an intangible yet critical medium in the contemporary, mediating relationships to place, technology and thought itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of Film will be essential reading for students and scholars of film at all levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 One hundred years of film theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Hollywood's last decade\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The limits of translation: transnational film\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Assemblage: editing space-time\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Innocent monsters: film and other media\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Inertia: on energy and film\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Film, TV \u0026amp; radio [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Film, TV \u0026amp; radio\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Film,%20TV%20\u0026amp;%20radio%20%5BAP%5D%22\"\u003eAP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407301243160,"sku":"9780745634739","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745634739.jpg?v=1784160166","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-evolution-of-film-rethinking-film-studies-hardback-9780745634739","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}