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In broad daylight
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- Book Synopsis
- From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics, exploring the metamorphosis of films in the age of individual media, when the public is increasingly free but also increasingly resistant to the emotive force of the pictures flashing around us. Moving deftly from philosophy of mind to film theory, from architectural practice to ethics, from Leon Battista Alberti to Orson Welles, Gabriele Pedull� examines the revolution that is reshaping the entire system of the arts and creativity in all its manifestations.
- About The Author
- Gabriele Pedull� is professor of Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (the most prestigious university in Italy) and a prizewinning fiction writer; he has been visiting professor at Stanford, UCLA, Princeton, and Berkeley, and is a contributor to the New Left Review and Jacobin. His books in English include: In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectators after the Cinema; Machiavelli in Tumult: The "Discourses on Livy" and the Origins of Political Conflictualism; and On Niccol� Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics. He is translated, or under translation, in nine languages.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781844678532
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Verso, (06 June 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 171
- Weight
- 359 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215.9 x 147.32 x 19.6 mm
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