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Stillmoving II
The Still Einstellung of Lumière, Welles, Bazin and the MPEG Compression Codec
Stillmoving II
The Still Einstellung of Lumière, Welles, Bazin and the MPEG Compression Codec
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Description
Stillmoving II studies a foundational figure of style: a static long take, discussed here as a still Einstellung. An analytical, theoretical and conceptual contribution to cinema and media studies in general and slow cinema and still moving scholarship in particular, the book asks what kind of image a still Einstellung generates.
Through figure of style analysis of the still Einstellung of Louis Lumière and Quai de l'Archevêché (Lumière operator, 1896), André Bazin's conceptualization of “the immobility of the sequence shot” in the kitchen scene in The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942), and the MPEG compression codec, Stillmoving II suggests that a still Einstellung causes stillmoving imagenesis, a both/neither first kind of image generation in a thirding or firsting of stillmoving/still/ moving imagenesis. As truly something else, while – like moving imagenesis – moving the moving as moving, a still Einstellung calms the unmoving as continuing, or: it stills the still as still. This is part of a disarming of the eye and camera.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Disarming of the Eye-And Camera
(Still) Einstellung And/As Ethics Of Recognition
1. A BOTH/NEITHER BENEATH BETWEENS? FROM STILL MOVING TO STILLMOVING (Part 2)
Still Einstellung In Still moving Scholarship (2011-2020) – And What Is Still At Stake?
2. THE FIRST EINSTELLUNG OF FILM WAS STILL
Louis Lumière And Film Frames That “Coincide Exactly” And Are “Rigorously Identical”
Case Study I: Quai de l'Archevêché (Lumière Operator, 1896) Early Contemplative Film
3. AS IF SWADDLING STILLNESS: WHAT CINEMA IS AS WELL
Case study II: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942) André Bazin And “The Immobility Of The Sequence Shot”
The Magnificent Ambersons Beyond Bazin
Conclusion: STILLMOVING – A DIFFERENT KIND OF IMAGE
Case Study III: The MPEG Compression Codec
Index
Product details
| Published | 22 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9798765128930 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 36 bw illus |
| Series | Thinking Media |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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