{"product_id":"ex-centric-cinema-giorgio-agamben-and-janet-harbord-9781628922417","title":"Ex-centric Cinema Giorgio Agamben and Film Archaeology","description":"In the beginning, cinema was an encounter between humans, images and machine technology, revealing a stream of staccato gestures, micrographic worlds, and landscapes seen from above and below. In this sense, cinema's potency was its ability to bring other, non-human modes of being into view, to forge an encounter between multiple realities that nonetheless co-exist. Yet the story of cinema became (through its institutionalization) one in which the human swiftly assumed centrality through the literary crafting of story, character and the expression of interiority. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEx-centric Cinema\u003c\/i\u003etakes an archaeological approach to the study of cinema through the writings of philosopher Giorgio Agamben, arguing that whilst we have a century-long tradition of cinema, the possibility of what cinema may have become is not lost, but co-exists in the present as an unexcavated potential. The term given to this history is ex-centric cinema, describing a centre-less moving image culture where animals, children, ghosts and machines are privileged vectors, where film is always an incomplete project, and where audiences are a coming community of ephemeral connections and links. Discussing such filmmakers as Harun Farocki, the Lumiere Brothers, Guy Debord and Wong Kar-wai, Janet Harbord draws connections with Agamben to propose a radically different way of thinking about cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Harbord\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1628922419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628922417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Janet Harbord","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44159433474303,"sku":"9781628922417","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95b2d203-60b6-40ec-a612-53a698399193.jpg?v=1689082577","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ex-centric-cinema-giorgio-agamben-and-janet-harbord-9781628922417","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}