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- catalog abstract ""Mitchell Stephens asserts that the moving image is likely to make our thoughts not more feeble but more robust. Stephens demonstrates that the charges that have been leveled against television have been faced by most new media, including writing and print. Centuries elapsed before most of these new forms of communication would be used to produce works of art and intellect of sufficient stature to overcome this inevitable mistrust and nostalgia. Using examples taken from the history of photography and film, as well as MTV, experimental films, and Pepsi commercials, the author considers the kinds of work that might unleash, in time, the full power of moving images. And he argues that these works - an emerging computer-edited and -distributed "new video"--Have the potential to inspire transformations in thought on a level with those inspired by the products of writing and print. Stephens sees in video's complexities, simultaneities, and juxtapositions, new ways of understanding and perhaps even surmounting the tumult and confusions of contemporary life."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10865103.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Mitchell Stephens asserts that the moving image is likely to make our thoughts not more feeble but more robust. Stephens demonstrates that the charges that have been leveled against television have been faced by most new media, including writing and print. Centuries elapsed before most of these new forms of communication would be used to produce works of art and intellect of sufficient stature to overcome this inevitable mistrust and nostalgia. Using examples taken from the history of photography and film, as well as MTV, experimental films, and Pepsi commercials, the author considers the kinds of work that might unleash, in time, the full power of moving images. And he argues that these works - an emerging computer-edited and -distributed "new video"--Have the potential to inspire transformations in thought on a level with those inspired by the products of writing and print. Stephens sees in video's complexities, simultaneities, and juxtapositions, new ways of understanding and perhaps even surmounting the tumult and confusions of contemporary life."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-253) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface: "A Transitional Period," 1. Introduction: "The Next Room," -- pt. I. Suspicion of the New. 2. "These Traditional Splendors of Letters": Writing and the Power of New Media. 3. "Ignorance's Weapons": Print and the Threat of New Media. 4. "Shrouded in the Traditional Form": When Media Are Young -- pt. II. The Magic of Images. 5. "By Means of the Visible": A Picture's Worth. 6. "Fast Seeing": Photographic Reality. 7. "Free ... from Human Immobility": Moving Pictures. 8. "Multiple Fragments ... Assembled Under a New Law": Montage. 9. "Gifts of Paralysis": Talking Pictures and Couch Potatoes -- pt. III. The New Video. 10. "A Forced Condensation of Energy": Fast Cutting. 11. "Increasingly Complex Media": New Technologies.".
- catalog extent "xii, 259 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195098293 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "302.23/45 21".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "PN1992.6 .S73 1998".
- catalog subject "Television Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Television broadcasting Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Visual communication.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: "A Transitional Period," 1. Introduction: "The Next Room," -- pt. I. Suspicion of the New. 2. "These Traditional Splendors of Letters": Writing and the Power of New Media. 3. "Ignorance's Weapons": Print and the Threat of New Media. 4. "Shrouded in the Traditional Form": When Media Are Young -- pt. II. The Magic of Images. 5. "By Means of the Visible": A Picture's Worth. 6. "Fast Seeing": Photographic Reality. 7. "Free ... from Human Immobility": Moving Pictures. 8. "Multiple Fragments ... Assembled Under a New Law": Montage. 9. "Gifts of Paralysis": Talking Pictures and Couch Potatoes -- pt. III. The New Video. 10. "A Forced Condensation of Energy": Fast Cutting. 11. "Increasingly Complex Media": New Technologies.".
- catalog title "The rise of the image, the fall of the word / Mitchell Stephens.".
- catalog type "text".