Cine-Dispositives: Essays in Epistemology Across Media
Cine-Dispositives: Essays in Epistemology Across Media
edited by Maria Tortajada and François Albera
Amsterdam University Press, 2014 eISBN: 978-90-485-2344-3 | Cloth: 978-90-8964-666-8 Library of Congress Classification PN1995.C56 2015
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositives - the Foucauldian concept of a strategic and technical configuration of practices and discourses - from the emergence of film studies as a field in the 1960s to more recent uses of the concept. In particular, the contributors confront points of view and perspectives in the context of the rise and spread of new technologies, changes that are continually altering the boundaries and the spaces of cinema and thus demand new analysis and theoretization.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Maria Tortajada is professor in the Department of History and Aesthetics of Film at Université de Lausanne in Switzerland.François Albera is professor in the Department of History and Aesthetics of Film at Université de Lausanne in Switzerland.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AcknowledgmentsQuestioning the Word "dispositif": Note on the TranslationForewordI. Dispositives : programsFrançois Albera, Maria Tortajada : The Dispositive Does Not Exist !Thomas Elsaesser : Between Knowing and Believing:The Cinematic Dispositive after CinemaII. Dispositives : issuesPatrick Désile : "You do not even know where you are": Dispositive and DizzinessMaria Tortajada : The Reconstruction of a Concept: Marey and the Synthesis of MovementElie During : Notes on the Bergsonian CinematographCharles Musser : The Stereopticon and Cinema: Media Form or Platform?André Gaudreault : On Some Limitations of the Definition of the Dispositive "Cinema"Omar Haschemi, The Moment of the "Dispositif"Philippe Ortel : The "Dispositive Effect" in Film NarrativeIII. Dispositives : historiesAlain Boillat : The Social Imaginary of Telephony. Fictional Dispositives in Albert Robida's Le Vingtième Siècle and the Archeology of "Talking Cinema"Laurent Guido : Between Paradoxical Spectacles and Technical Dispositives:Looking Again at the Serpentine Dances of Early CinemaBenoît Turquety : Forms of Machines, Forms of MovementFrançois Albera : The Amateur-DispositiveGilles Delavaud : Two Versions of the Television DispositiveCharlotte Bouchez : Reality Television as Dispositive: The Case of French-Speaking SwitzerlandChristophe Wall-Romana : Dispositive and Cinepoetry, around Foucault's Death and the LabyrinthViva Paci : Archaeology and Spectacle: Old Dispositives and New Objects for Surprised Spectators Stopping by the MuseumAuthors