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Bigger Than Life

The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema
  • ISBN-13: 9781478014485
  • Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Mary Ann Doane
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  • Local release date: 18/06/2022
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 277 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Film theory & criticism [APFA]
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In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectators sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close-up, particularly of the face, as grotesque and often horrifying, even as it sought to expose a characters interiority through its magnification of detail and expression. Today, large-scale technologies such as IMAX and surround sound strive to dissolve the cinematic frame and invade the spectators space, "immersing" them in image and sound. The notion of immersion, Doane contends, is symptomatic of a crisis of location in technologically mediated space and a reconceptualization of position, scale, and distance. In this way, cinematic scale and its modes of spatialization and despatialization have shaped the modern subject, interpolating them into the incessant expansion of commodification.

Mary Ann Doane is Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive and Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Scale, the Cinematic Image, and the Negotiation of Space 1
Part I. Close-Up/Face
1. The Delirium of a Minimal Unit 29
2. The Cinematic Manufacture of Scale, or Historical Vicissitudes of the Close-Up 53
3. At Face Value 89
Part II. Scale/Screen
4. Screens, Female Faces, and Modernities 135
5. The Location of the Image: Projection, Perspective, and Scale 189
6. The Concept of Immersion: Mediated Space, Media Space, and the Location of the Subject 239
Notes 283
Bibliography 325
Index 343

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