<videovortex> a new gaze via remote control - death 24x a second

[Seth Keen]

review in realtime - laura mulvey’s death 24x a second

"More precisely and theoretically, Mulvey is very interested in the  
way the new technologies enable and even encourage the remote control- 
wielding viewer to see figurative death in the form of the still or  
slowed image extricated from narrative movement. Replaying sequences  
and freeze-framing particular shots, for Mulvey, enable a significant  
re-making of the film away from its original organisation towards a  
more malleable, stretched and fragmented form that opens up a new  
engagement with “the presence of death.”

"Mulvey’s argument asserts a new viewer-film relationship—a  
technical, hermeneutic and sensual access to films in all their  
aesthetic minutiae—rather than cinema per se, which has always  
contained such elements even if shrouded by narrative action and  
linearity. This allows a newly multi-dimensional understanding of  
“the internal world of cinema.” Taken as a whole, the book  
effectively, if idealistically, essays this newly empowered gaze as a  
revolution in our knowledge of the increasingly important image world  
she says is equivalent to 19th century photography transforming “the  
human eye’s perception of the world.”

seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
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