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The Remembered Film
Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the "inside" of the from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the "outside" of films speak mainly of such aspects of production and reception as the organization of the film industry and the sociology of the Hollywood studio system, for example, or fan clubs. The Remembered Film is unique in addressing a previously overlooked aspect of the isolated fragments of films, iconic images or scenes, that fleetingly cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of everyday life.
Victor Burgin examines a kaleidoscope of film fragments drawn from a variety of media, the internet, memory and fantasy. Among these are sequences of such brevity they might almost be stills. Such "sequence-images", as Burgin calls them, are neither strictly "image" nor "image sequence" and have not been considered before by either film or photography theory. He also considers some typical individual experiences "sampled" from mainstream cinema. He reflects on such disparate occurrences as the association in memory of fragments from otherwise unrelated films, of the relation of a recollected film image to an architectural setting, or of a feeling "marked" by an image remembered from a film.
The Remembered Film provides a radical new way of thinking about film outside conventional cinema, and in relation to our everyday lives. It will appeal to a wide audience interested in film and media.
Victor Burgin examines a kaleidoscope of film fragments drawn from a variety of media, the internet, memory and fantasy. Among these are sequences of such brevity they might almost be stills. Such "sequence-images", as Burgin calls them, are neither strictly "image" nor "image sequence" and have not been considered before by either film or photography theory. He also considers some typical individual experiences "sampled" from mainstream cinema. He reflects on such disparate occurrences as the association in memory of fragments from otherwise unrelated films, of the relation of a recollected film image to an architectural setting, or of a feeling "marked" by an image remembered from a film.
The Remembered Film provides a radical new way of thinking about film outside conventional cinema, and in relation to our everyday lives. It will appeal to a wide audience interested in film and media.
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128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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November 4, 2024
Consciousnesses may be synchronized in a shared moment of viewing, but the film we saw is never the film I remember.
Curious little book about the way we perceive film in relation to our memory. Very theory-heavy which is probably why I wasn't too obsessed. There were a few chapters that stood out to me - I especially liked the one about JenniCam and the implications of exhibitionism in a modern context (granted, this book was written in 2004...I wonder what Victor would think of streaming services?) I love how obsessed he is with 'A Canterbury Tale' and I will watch it based on his obsession with one of the sequences from it (which is shown on the cover). I felt this was a combination of personal and researched histories - I was more into the personal than the researched. I wished I knew what he was talking about half the time. This was one of two books I randomly picked off the library shelves so I'm not mad with this at all.
Curious little book about the way we perceive film in relation to our memory. Very theory-heavy which is probably why I wasn't too obsessed. There were a few chapters that stood out to me - I especially liked the one about JenniCam and the implications of exhibitionism in a modern context (granted, this book was written in 2004...I wonder what Victor would think of streaming services?) I love how obsessed he is with 'A Canterbury Tale' and I will watch it based on his obsession with one of the sequences from it (which is shown on the cover). I felt this was a combination of personal and researched histories - I was more into the personal than the researched. I wished I knew what he was talking about half the time. This was one of two books I randomly picked off the library shelves so I'm not mad with this at all.
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