Film, Art, New Media

1. Introduction: A Cosmology of Contingency
Angela Dalle Vacche

Part I. Early Cinema

2. The Artist’s Studio: The Affair of Art and Film
Lynda Nead

3. Cézanne and the Lumière Brothers
Angela Dalle Vacche

4. The Medium is a Muscle: Abstraction in Early Film, Dance, Painting
Nell Andrew

Part II. Film Theory

5. Vertov and the Line: Art, Socialization, Collaboration
John MacKay

6. Quoting Motion: The Frame, the Shot, and Digital Video
Trond Lundemo

7. Malraux, Benjamin, Bazin: A Triangle of Hope for Cinema
Dudley Andrew

8. Poetic Density, Ontic Weight: Post-Photographic Depiction in Victor Erice’s Dream of Light
Simon Dixon

Part III. Visual Studies, Art History, Film

9. Of the Face, In Reticence
Noa Steimatsky

10. Remapping the Rural: The Ideological Geographies of Strapaese
Lara Pucci

Part IV. Painters and Filmmakers

11. Artistic Encounters: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, and Cézanne
Sally Shafto

12. Two-Way Mirror: Francis Bacon and the Deformation of Film
Susan Felleman

Part V. Film, Museum, New Media

13. A Disturbing Presence? Scenes from the History of Film in the Museum
Ian Christie

14. Elegy, Eulogy, and the Utopia of Restoration—Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark
Jeremi Szaniawski

15. Museums as Laboratories of Change: The Case for the Moving Image
François Penz

16. Right Here … Right Now … Art Gone Live!
Gavin Hogben

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Arts, Film History, Fine Arts, Film and Television Studies, Genre