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Eyal Peretz - The Off-Screen: An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame - 9781503600720 - V9781503600720
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The Off-Screen: An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame

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Description for The Off-Screen: An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame Hardback. By focusing on what is outside the frame, this book offers a comprehensive theory of film, a concise history of American cinema, and a reflection on the place and significance of film within the arts of modernity in general. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AJRD; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .

From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting everything that is within it from the continuity of the world and creating a realm we understand as the realm of fiction. The modern theatrical stage, framed paintings, the novel, the cinematic screen—all present us with such framed-off zones. Naturally, the frame creates a separation between inside and out. But, as this book argues, what is outside the frame, what is offstage, or off screen, remains particularly ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9781503600720
SKU
V9781503600720
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About Eyal Peretz
Eyal Peretz is Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Visionary (Stanford, 2007).

Reviews for The Off-Screen: An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame
"Peretz's landmark discussion of the off-screen goes well beyond the technical definitions of Bazin, Bonitzer, or Deleuze. In his hands, the off-screen becomes the philosophical lynchpin of a new way of addressing modern art and the poetics of the modern image."
Alessia Ricciardi
Northwestern University
"Think you know what a frame is? Well, this inspired book radically ... Read more

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