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The World Viewed

Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

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$37.00 • £32.95 • €33.95

ISBN 9780674961968

Publication Date: 01/01/1979

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280 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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  • Foreword to the Enlarged Edition
  • Preface
  • 1. An Autobiography of Companions
  • 2. Sights and Sounds
  • 3. Photograph and Screen
  • 4. Audience, Actor, and Star
  • 5. Types; Cycles as Genres
  • 6. Ideas of Origin
  • 7. Baudelaire and the Myths of Film
  • 8. The Military Man and the Woman
  • 9. The Dandy
  • 10. End of the Myths
  • 11. The Medium and Media of Film
  • 12. The World as Mortal: Absolute Age and Youth
  • 13. The World as a Whole: Color
  • 14. Automatism
  • 15. Excursus: Some Modernist Painting
  • 16. Exhibition and Self-Reference
  • 17. The Camera’s Implication
  • 18. Assertions in Techniques
  • 19. The Acknowledgment of Silence
  • More of The World Viewed
  • Notes
  • Index

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