This collection of essays by leading photographic and film theorists considers the changing relationship between the still and moving image in contemporary culture. The photograph has traditionally been seen as a quintessentially still image but new technological developments in digital media have fundamentally altered the way in which we think about the still and the moving im...(展开全部)

From the proto-cinematic sequencing of animal motion in the nineteenth century to the ubiquity of animal videos online, the histories of animal life and the moving image are enigmatically interlocked. Animal Life and the Moving Image is the first collection of essays to offer a sustained focus on the relations between screen cultures and non-human animals. The volume brings tog...(展开全部)

In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography--offering the workshop experience in a book. Its goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Each vol...(展开全部)

In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visua...(展开全部)

In this multidisciplinary approach Pasi Väliaho draws from science and philosophy to offer a compelling study of how the medium of film has shaped our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Väliaho examines key films from the early twentieth century, tracing the role that various arrangements of movement have played in the development of corporeality, perception, a...(展开全部)

约翰尼斯•费边，著名人类学家，曾在美国西北大学、卫斯理学院等多所大学执教，担任波恩大学、科隆大学、巴黎大学的访问学者。退休前任教于荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学，现居德国。他写了很多批评性的著作，《时间与他者》是他的代表作，这本书是人类学领域的经典著作，改变了人类学家“建立研究对象”的方法。

How has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology, Postcinematic Vision offers a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing startling new insights into the so-called divide between cinematic and digital media. Starting with the argument that film v...(展开全部)

'An important work on an involved subject,, illustrated with more than 250 telling black-and-white pictures and written with admirable thoroughness and clarity... Now at last we have a full,, standard work... a mine of scholarly and stimulating information which has been needed for a long time' - The Times Literary Supplement

Time and the Other contains a series of essays presented as lectures in 1946–47 at the Collège Philosophique in Paris, along with additional essays dealing with time, sociality, and ethics. This work represents, along with Existence and Existents, the first formulation of Levinas's own philosophy, later more fully developed in other works. Beginning with an analysis of existenc...(展开全部)