Dead But Still/Moving By Taylor Andrew G 9783659574214 (Paperback)

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Films, cinema

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Wordery

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Lap lambert academic publishin

Dead But Still/Moving : 9783659574214 : 23 Jul 2014 : Dead but still/moving... looks at the 'still/moving'; that is, creative work in a space between still images (photography) and moving pictures (cinema). Recently there has been a wave of interest in the still/moving in installation art and feature films but there has been virtually no written commentary on the still/moving in documentary, and even less on the slide show and documentary. From magic lantern shows to PowerPoint presentations, the slide show has cast a long shadow on documentary film. In the 1880s the New York Police reporter, Jacob Riis, barnstormed America with magic lantern images of urban poverty; and in 2006, An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary woven around Al Gore's slide show PowerPoint presentation, screened to audiences around the world. Dead but still/moving... looks at how the slide show has haunted documentary and reveals a pre-occupation still/moving films have with time, memory, mortality and death. The

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