Overview
- Considers the aesthetics and politics of contemporary artists’ moving image work
- Features close textual analysis to explore works in detail
- Pays close attention to the ways in which moving images interact with spaces and sites of exhibition
Part of the book series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television (CRFT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book is about the aesthetics and politics of contemporary artists’ moving image installations, and the ways that they use temporal and spatial relationships in the gallery to connect with geopolitical issues. Displaced from the cinema, moving images increasingly address themes of movement and change in the world today. Digital technology has facilitated an explosion of work of this kind, and the expansion of contemporary art museums, biennales and large-scale exhibitions all over the world has created venues and audiences for it. Despite its 20th century precursors, this is a new and distinct artistic form, with an emerging body of thematic concerns and aesthetics strategies. Through detailed analysis of a range of important 21st century works, the book explores how this spatio-temporal form has been used to address major issues of our time, including post-colonialism, migration and conflict. Paying close attention to the ways in which moving imagesinteract with the specific spaces and sites of exhibition, the book explores the mobile viewer’s experiences in these immersive and transitory works.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alison Butler is an Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of Women's Cinema: the Contested Screen (2002) and has published widely on artists’ film, moving image installation and women’s cinema. She is an editor of the scholarly journal Screen and a member of the research team on the collaborative Anglo-Brazilian 'IntermIdia' project.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Displacements
Book Subtitle: Reading Space and Time in Moving Image Installations
Authors: Alison Butler
Series Title: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30461-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30460-7Published: 02 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30463-8Published: 28 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30461-4Published: 20 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6133
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 178
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Close Reading, Arts