The Human Figure on Film Lindsay Janssen

The Human Figure on Film Lindsay JanssenOffers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema. 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.

author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts

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the invocation of a boundary beyond which experience becomes unpredictable and uncertain