The following text field will produce suggestions that follow it as you type.

Popular Categories

Still Modernism by Louise Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Compare Still Modernism by Louise Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Louise Hornby

$59.03

Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technologies and the invention of motion pictures, it claims that stillness is nonetheless an essential tactic of modernist innovation. More specifically, the book looks at the ways in which photographic stillness emerges as a counterpoint to motion and to film, asserting its own clear visibility against the blur of kinesis. Photographic stillness becomes a means to resist the ephemerality of motion and to get at and articulate something real oressential by way of its fixed limits. Combining art history, film studies and literary studies, Louise Hornby reveals how photographers, filmmakers, and writers, even at their most kinetic, did not surrender attention to points of stillness. Rather, the still image, understood through photography, establishes itself as a mode of resistance and provides a formal response to various modernist efforts to see better, to attend more closely, and to remove the fetters of subjectivity and experience. Still Modernism brings together a series of canonical texts, films, and photographs, the selection of which reinforces the central claim that stillness does not lurk at the margins of modernism, but was constitutive of its very foundations. In a series of comparisons drawing from literary and visualobjects, Hornby argues that still photography allows film to access its own diffuse images of motion; photography's duplicative form provides a serial structure for modernist efforts to represent the face; its iterative structure articulates the jerky rhythms of experimental narrative asperambulation; and its processes of development allow for the world to emerge independent of the human observer. Casting new light on the relationship between photography and film, Hornby situates the struggle between the still and the kinetic at the center of modernist culture. | Still Modernism by Louise Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Compare more products to Louise Hornby

Still Modernism by Louise Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Still Modernism by Louise Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $59.03
Slam by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Slam by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $19.99
Slam by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Slam by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $18.99
Slam by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Slam by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $19.99
Slam by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Slam by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $18.99
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $21.00
Manchester Moll by Emma Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Manchester Moll by Emma Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $14.99
Manchester Moll by Emma Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Manchester Moll by Emma Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $14.99
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $21.00
Just Like You by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Just Like You by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $23.00
All Together Now by Gill Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

All Together Now by Gill Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $19.49
A Daughter's Price by Emma Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

A Daughter's Price by Emma Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Current price: $15.99
All Together Now by Gill Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

All Together Now by Gill Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $19.49
Just Like You by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Just Like You by Nick Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $23.00
A Daughter's Price by Emma Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

A Daughter's Price by Emma Hornby, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $15.99
Powered by Adeptmind