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The rise of the image, the fall of the word /

0195098293

9780195098297

b534505

The rise of the image, the fall of the word /

[Book]

Mitchell Stephens

New York :

Oxford University Press,

1998

xii, 259 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-253) and index

"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

Motion pictures-- Philosophy

Television broadcasting-- Social aspects

Television-- Philosophy

Visual communication

Communication visuelle

Philosophie au cinéma

Télévision - Aspect social

Télévision - Philosophie

Stephens, Mitchell

20160712063254.0

[Book]

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