{"product_id":"9798765129012","title":"Stillmoving","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThinking Media\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eStillmoving\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJon Inge Faldalen\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis two-volume work explores a static long take, termed a \u003ci\u003estill Einstellung\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as coexistent still and moving imagery by Lumière, Welles and the MPEG compression codec, to contemplate the kind of image it generates.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJon Inge Faldalen’s volumes are a theoretical exploration of the concept of \u003ci\u003eEinstellung\u003c\/i\u003e. The author keeps the original German term, capitalizing on the ambiguity inherent in this type of image phenomenon; in this case, the long take, or at least a continuous unbroken take, effected by an immobile camera whose captured content could potentially contain perceptible movements produced by entities within the composition framed. The author embraces neologisms in order to capture specific aesthetic-technical phenomena more accurately than has hitherto been possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStillmoving I \u003c\/i\u003eis a film theoretical exploration of the concept of \u003ci\u003eEinstellung\u003c\/i\u003e. The author asks whether this image is a still image, or a moving image, or both, or neither, or, finally, what Faldalen terms \u003ci\u003estillmoving\u003c\/i\u003e. Underlying these deliberations is the question of how cinema represents or mediates stillness. It unfolds over three chapters that examine the concept of \u003ci\u003estill Einstellung \u003c\/i\u003ein relation to \u003ci\u003eslow cinema\u003c\/i\u003e scholarship throughout the last two decades, in relation to approaches referred to as \u003ci\u003estillmoving scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e, and in relation to reflections and shadows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStillmoving II \u003c\/i\u003econtinues the work of the first volume, exploring the concept of \u003ci\u003eEinstellung\u003c\/i\u003e through a small set of specific case studies, including Louis Lumière’s \u003ci\u003eQuai de l’Archevêché \u003c\/i\u003e(Lumière operator, 1896), André Bazin’s analysis of the kitchen scene in \u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons \u003c\/i\u003e(Orson Welles, 1942), and James Benning’s \u003ci\u003eStemple Pass\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), as well as what the author calls “digital imagenesis,” which concerns the MPEG compression codec.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJon Inge Faldalen\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Media and Screen Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the founder of the multi-million kroner research and teaching initiative \u003ci\u003eScreen Cultures \u003c\/i\u003e(2019-2024) at the University of Oslo. His research is primarily in the disciplines of ‘screen studies’ and ‘cinema and media studies’, and he frequently writes and talks about films and tv series. He has to his name close to five hundred critical reviews, essays and interviews, and has since 2003 interviewed hundreds of filmmakers, including the late Theo Angelopoulos and Abbas Kiarostami, Frederick Wiseman, Roy Andersson, Judd Apatow, Miranda July, Hirokazu Koreeda, David Lynch, Jafar Panahi, Ulrich Seidl, Abderrahmane Sissako, Joachim Trier, Liv llmann, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Ruben Östlund. 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