This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century. By studying the very metaphor that cinema lives by, it provides a rich and insightful map of our understanding of cinema and film styles and shows how cinema shapes our understanding of the arts and media. As current new media technologies are attempting to shift the identity of cinema and moving imagery, it is hard to overstate the importance of this metaphor for our understanding of the modalities of vision. In what guises does the "camera eye" continue to survive in media that is called new?
Introduction
1. Seeing-As
Playing with the Senses
Sensitive Paper and Visual Substance
Mechanical Brains and Electronic Minds
The Organic Camera Eye and Walter Benjamins Optical Unconscious
Convergent Theorizing in Jean-Louis Baudrys Apparatus Theory
2. Seeing Better and Seeing More
Camera and Dispositif
René Descartes and Dziga Vertov on Perfecting Vision
Seeing Better with Vsevolod Pudovkins Cartesian Camera Eye
Seeing More with Vertovs Kino-Eye
3. Seeing and Writing
Dziga Vertovs Poetic Map of A Sixth Part of the World
The Literary Notebooks of Luigi Pirandellos Silent Camera Operator
The Sound Image of John Dos Passos Camera Eye
Christopher Isherwoods Camera Eye on Stage and Screen
4. Memory and Traces
A Series of Dated Traces
Margarete Böhmes The Diary of a Lost One
Filming the Diary of a Lost Girl
William Keighleys Journal of a Crime
Cinema as Paper Formatted in Time
5. Gestures and Figures
Embodied Gestures and Textual Figures
Autopsy and Autography
Cinematic Discovery of the Self
Filmic Bodies and Figures in Narrative Film Theory
From Lady in the Lake to La Femme défendue
6. Roles and Models
Personal Cinema as Institution, Medium and Genre
From Psychodrama to Life Models
Animating the Self in Jerome Hills Film Portrait
Stan Brakhages Metaphors and Art of Vision
Brakhages Development of Camera Consciousness
The Eye Body and the Body Politic in Carolee Schneemanns Expanded Cinema
7. Minds and Screens
Bruce Kawin and Gilles Deleuze on Camera Consciousness
Visionary Agents in Michael Powells Peeping Tom and Bertrand Taverniers
Death Watch
Enacted Vision
Christian Quendler is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is the author of From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction and Interfaces of Fiction.
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