Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity

Francesco Casetti

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Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13995-3
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May, 2008
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Acknowledgments

A Hundred Years, A Century

1. The Gaze Of Its Age

Seeing

Synchronies

“De l’art et du traffic”

If Orestes Becomes Rio Jim

“Laideur et beauté”

Film, Twentieth Century

2. Framing The World

More, Less

The Eagle, the Fly and the Emperor

What Ever Happened to the Black Man?

With Closed Eyes

Nostalgia for Something

3. Double Vision

Properties of the Gaze

And What Do You Know About Him?

A Face, the Eyes

The Law, a Rifle, and Memory

Observing, Reconstructing, Inventing

Exercises in Recognition

The Eye at Stake

4. The Glass Eye

The Mechanism of Life

The Monkey with the Camera

Notebooks of M.K, operator

King Kong on Broadway

Resisting the Light

The Beast and the Marionette

5. Strong Sensations

Intensification of the Nervous Life

Running Against Time

Marfa’s Sex

Reason and Sensation

Constructing Emotions

6. Glosses, Exymorons, And Discipline

The Circuit of Social Discourses

To Give a Form, to Negotiate

Discipline of the Eye

Decalogue

Remains Of The Day

Notes

BibliographyAcknowledgments

A Hundered Years, A Century

1. The Gaze of its Age

- Seeing

- Synchronies

- “De l’art et du traffic”

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About the Author

Francesco Casetti is full professor at the Università Cattolica in Milan where he teaches the study of cinematography and is the chair of the Department of Media and Performing Arts. He has also taught at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Sorbonne. He is the author of Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator and Theories of Cinema, 1945-1995.

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