β Scribed by Mary Ann Doane
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In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close-up, particularly of the face, as grotesque and often horrifying, even as it sought to expose a character's interiority through its magnification of detail and expression. Today, large-scale technologies such as IMAX and surround sound strive to dissolve the cinematic frame and invade the spectator's space, βimmersingβ them in image and sound. The notion of immersion, Doane contends, is symptomatic of a crisis of location in technologically mediated space and a reconceptualization of position, scale, and distance. In this way, cinematic scale and its modes of spatialization and despatialization have shaped the modern subject, interpolating them into the incessant expansion of commodification.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Scale, the Cinematic Image, and the Negotiation of Space
Part I. Close-up/Face
1. The Delirium of a Minimal Unit
2. The Cinematic Manufacture of Scale, or Historical Vicissitudes of the Close-Up
3. At Face Value
Part II. Scale/Screen
4. Screens, Female Faces, and Modernities
5. The Location of the Image: Projection, Perspective, and Scale
6. The Concept of Immersion: Mediated Space, Media Space, and the Location of the Subject
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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