MOVEMENT AS MEANING IN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
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- Author: DANIEL BARNETT
- ISBN: 9781501329845
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Movement as Meaning in
Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic
philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for
illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie
projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of
interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of
family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the
analysis of acts of reference. He then develops a hyper-simplified formula of movement
as meaning to discuss, with true equivalence, the process of reference as it
occurs in natural language, technical language, poetic language, painting,
photography, music, and of course, cinema. Barnett then applies his analytic
technique to an original perspective on cine-poetics based on Paul Valery's
concept of omnivalence, and to a projection of how this style of analysis,
derived from analog cinema, can help us clarify our view of the digital
mediasphere and its relation to consciousness. Informed by the philosophy of
Quine, Dennett, Merleau-Ponty as well as the later work of Wittgenstein, among
others, he uses the film work of Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad, A.K. Dewdney,
Nathaniel Dorsky, Ken Jacobs, Owen Land, Saul Levine, Gregory Markopoulos Michael
Snow, and the poetry of Basho, John Cage, John Cayley and Paul Valery to
illustrate the power of his unique perspective on meaning.