The Human Figure on Film: Natural, Pictorial, Institutional, Fictional by Watter, Seth Barry

The Human Figure on Film: Natural, Pictorial, Institutional, Fictional

The Human Figure on Film asks what it is we look for when we look at human...
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Author: Seth Barry Watter
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The Human Figure on Film: Natural, Pictorial, Institutional, Fictional by Watter, Seth Barry

The Human Figure on Film: Natural, Pictorial, Institutional, Fictional

$336.35

The Human Figure on Film: Natural, Pictorial, Institutional, Fictional

$336.35
Author: Seth Barry Watter
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The Human Figure on Film asks what it is we look for when we look at human beings projected on a screen. People have appeared onscreen since film was invented. Nothing could be more common, and yet nothing confounds us more, than a filmed human being. Scholars and critics have attempted to reduce the mystery, creating methodologies that make this figure legible. Some of their efforts form the subject of this book.

Each chapter is devoted to a single, central concept--the natural, the pictorial, the institutional, and the fictional--that viewers have used to make sense of what they see. Each concept, in turn, is tied to the work and methods of a particular kind of historical observer: the natural historian (Ray L. Birdwhistell), the aesthete or pictorialist (Victor O. Freeburg), the anthropologist of institutions (Hortense Powdermaker), and the critic of fiction (V. F. Perkins). All of these researchers have their own interests and criteria of understanding, ranging from a microscopic look at gestures to a broad view of characters. Using a combination of critical history, biography, and formal analysis, The Human Figure on Film offers a fresh approach to the problem of figuration in an age of digital cinema. It is, at once, a cross-section of the field of film studies, a handbook of methods, and an inquiry into the nature of inquiry itself.

Author: Seth Barry Watter
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781438495088

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