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Absence in Cinema
The Art of Showing Nothing
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English
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2020
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Justin Remes demonstrates how omissions of expected elements can spur viewers to interpret and understand the nature of film in new ways. Through a careful analysis of a broad array of avant-garde works, Absence in Cinema reveals that films must be understood not only in terms of what they show but also what they withhold.
Author / Editor information
Justin Remes is assistant professor of film studies at Iowa State University. He is the author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (Columbia, 2015).
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Holly Rogers, author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art Music:
Absence in Cinema is about mysterious gaps and thwarted expectations. Starting from the idea that “every absence is a presence in disguise”, Justin Remes combines aesthetic analysis with psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to construct a powerful theory of erasure in experimental film culture. Taking in invisible art, soundless music and wordless poetry, Absence in Cinema is as incisive and radical as its subject matter.
Absence in Cinema is about mysterious gaps and thwarted expectations. Starting from the idea that “every absence is a presence in disguise”, Justin Remes combines aesthetic analysis with psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to construct a powerful theory of erasure in experimental film culture. Taking in invisible art, soundless music and wordless poetry, Absence in Cinema is as incisive and radical as its subject matter.
Scott MacDonald, editor of Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema:
This theoretically sophisticated book about a set of exemplary avant-garde films during which there is either “nothing” to see or “nothing” to hear, or both, is a remarkably fun read. Justin Remes is a magician who makes Nothing in cinema Something!
Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie Machine:
Absence in Cinema is a dazzling, meticulously detailed, even revolutionary work. Remes's style is so assured with such a light and knowing touch that the reader is propelled through the book from first page to last.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION: Voids
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1. WALTER RUTTMANN AND THE BLIND FILM
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2. STAN BRAKHAGE AND THE BIRTH OF SILENCE
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3. NAOMI UMAN AND THE PEEKABOO PRINCIPLE
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4. MARTIN ARNOLD’S DISAPPEARING ACT
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CONCLUSION: Nothing Is Important
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FILMOGRAPHY
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NOTES
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INDEX
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FILM AND CULTURE
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August 24, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780231548281
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15 b&w film stills
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9780231548281
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Professional and scholarly;
