Radio Eye

Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988

AvJerry White

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988, examines the way in which media experiments in Quebec, Newfoundland, the Faroe Islands, and the Irish-Gaelic-speaking communities of Ireland use film, video, and television to advocate for marginalized communities and often for ""smaller languages."" The Radio Eye is not, however, a set of isolated case studies. Author Jerry White illustrates the degree to which these experiments are interconnected, sometimes implicitly but more often quite explicitly. Media makers in the North Atlantic during the period 1958-1988 were very aware of each other's cultures and aspirations, and, by structuring the book in two interlocking parts, White illustrates the degree to which a common project emerged during those three decades. The book is bound together by White's belief that these experiments are following in the idealism of Soviet silent filmmaker Dziga Vertov, who wrote about his notion of ""the Radio Eye."" White also puts these experiments in the context of work by the Cuban filmmaker and theorist Julio García Espinosa and his notion of ""imperfect cinema,"" Jürgen Habermas and his notions of the ""public sphere,"" and Édourard Glissant's ideas about ""créolité"" as the defining aspect of modern culture. This is a genuinely internationalist moment, and these experiments are in conversation with a wide array of thought across a number of languages.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Film and Media Studies
Antal sidor:285
Förlag:Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN:9781554586141

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Television inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Jerry White is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of numerous books on film, including Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville (WLU Press, 2013).

Recensioner i media

``Experimentations with media outlets in the North Atlantic regions of Quebec, Newfoundland, the Faroe Islands, and the Gaelic-speaking communities in Ireland between the late 1950s and late 1980s are the subject of Jerry White's critical survey The Radio Eye. The book accentuates similarities between those experiments, and how they were informed by the approaches of Soviet silent filmmaker Dziga Vertov, who himself wrote about the Radio Eye notion. In this regard White suggests that some of the filmmakers in the region made films that seemed closer to radio than to conventional cinema. Of particular interest to White is how specific media experiences in the North Atlantic complemented Vertov's preoccupation with escaping the shackles of the realist-illusionist, narrative feature film, and to make work that reflected everyday life of a transforming society. In this well-researched and eloquently written book, White explains why.... White indulges the aesthetic and stylistic commonalities between the practices of various North Atlantic media-makers over a period of three decades, and those advocated by Vertov a couple of decades earlier. This is where the author's scholarship excels and succeeds meticulously.'' -- Malek Khouri, University of Toronto Quarterly, Volume 80, number 2, Spring 2011

Innehållsförteckning

The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988 by Jerry WhiteAcknowledgementsNotes on Sources and LanguageIntroductionPart 1. The Islands1 Pierre Perrault2 The NFB's Newfoundland Project3 Sjónvarpsfelagið í HavnPart 2. The GaeltachtAn Introduction to the Gaeltacht4 Desmond Fennell and Pierre Perrault5 Cinegael and the Newfoundland Project6 Teilifís na Gaeltachta and the FaroesConclusionBibliographyIndex

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