{"product_id":"between-images-montage-and-the-problem-of-relation-hardcover","title":"Between Images: Montage and the Problem of Relation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRyan Conrath\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early days of moving pictures, filmmakers learned that the montage could be an effective tool to show changes in time or locale. \u003cem\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/em\u003e's iconic travel montage is mimicked by filmmakers to this day. Since its use in \u003cem\u003eRocky\u003c\/em\u003e, the training montage has become a staple for sports films. In the 2004 film \u003cem\u003eTeam America\u003c\/em\u003e, the song \"Montage\" is a meta explanation of the device's universal use and understanding. Its history and affects are studied and practiced by student and professional filmmakers alike. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBetween Images\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a unique theory of montage a technique of relation: a way of rethinking and reshaping how humans relate--to ourselves and each other, to the material world, to the planet and its nonhuman inhabitants. Historically, film criticism has cast editing in one of several roles: as a device of spatiotemporal \u003cem\u003econtinuity\u003c\/em\u003e to maintain the viewer's investment in the story-world; as an agent of disorder that confounds conventions of realism to prompt the viewer's \u003cem\u003eintellectual\u003c\/em\u003e engagement; and as an expressionistic device for augmenting the duration and combination of shots to leave a \u003cem\u003esensory\u003c\/em\u003e impression. While not abandoning such accounts, this book ventures closer to the heart of montage by distinguishing the space between images as itself a powerful source of political, emotional, and aesthetic formation. Venturing into an \"expanded field of montage,\" this study traces the cut and the splice across photographic and cinematic media, where the space between images becomes a setting for navigating and renegotiating the terms of relation, of the \"being-with\" that connects all forms of life. \u003cem\u003eBetween Images\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a diverse cast of established and emerging film artists--Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Steve McQueen, and Cauleen Smith, Da?hi Saito, and Ja'Tovia Gary among others--to demonstrate the abiding capacity of cinema to effect change.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRyan Conrath\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English in the Film Program at Salisbury University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47408288366770,"sku":"9780197612293","price":162.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c6c820a7de72948d417538f6494e3ff5.webp?v=1778240994","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/between-images-montage-and-the-problem-of-relation-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}