Film, art, new media
museum without walls?

Introduction: A Cosmology of Contingency / Angela Dalle Vacche -- PART I: Early cinema. The Artist's Studio: The Affair of Art and Film / Lynda Nead ; Cézanne and the Lumière Brothers / Angela Dalle Vacche ; The Medium is a Muscle: Abstraction in Early Film, Dance, Painting / Nell Andrew. -- PART II: Film theory. Vertov and the Line: Art, Socialization, Collaboration / John MacKay ; Quoting Motion: The Frame, the Shot, and Digital Video / Trond Lundemo ; Malraux, Benjamin, Bazin: A Triangle of Hope for Cinema / Dudley Andrew ; Poetic Density, Ontic Weight: Post-Photographic Depiction in Victor Erice's Dream of Light / Simon Dixon. -- PART III: Visual studies, art history, film. Of the Face, in Reticence / Noa Steimatsky ; Remapping the Rural: The Ideological Geographies of Strapaese / Lara Pucci. -- PART IV: Painters and filmmakers. Artistic Encounters: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, and Cézanne / Sally Shafto ; Two-Way Mirror: Francis Bacon and the Deformation of Film / Susan Felleman. -- PART V: Film museum, new media. A Disturbing Presence? Scenes from the History of Film in the Museum / Ian Christie ; Elegy, Eulogy, and the Utopia of Restoration-Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark / Jeremi Szaniawski ; Museums as Laboratories of Change: the Case for the Moving Image / François Penz ; Right Here ... Right Now ... Art Gone Live! / Gavin Hogben.

"An anthology of essays exploring the relationship between film and art, within and across the domains of theory and practice, from the late nineteenth century to the present."--Publisher's website