The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the WordOxford University Press, 08.10.1998 - 272 Seiten For decades educators and cultural critics have deplored the corrosive effects of electronic media on the national consciousness. The average American reads less often, writes less well. And, numbed by the frenetic image-bombardment of music videos, commercials and sound bites, we may also, it is argued, think less profoundly. But wait. Is it just possible that some good might arise from the ashes of the printed word? Most emphatically yes, argues Mitchell Stephens, who asserts that the moving image is likely to make our thoughts not more feeble but more robust. Through a fascinating overview of previous communications revolutions, Stephens demonstrates that the charges that have been leveled against television have been faced by most new media, including writing and print. Centuries elapsed before most of these new forms of communication would be used to produce works of art and intellect of sufficient stature to overcome this inevitable mistrust and nostalgia. Using examples taken from the history of photography and film, as well as MTV, experimental films, and Pepsi commercials, the author considers the kinds of work that might unleash, in time, the full power of moving images. And he argues that these works--an emerging computer-edited and -distributed "new video"--have the potential to inspire transformations in thought on a level with those inspired by the products of writing and print. Stephens sees in video's complexities, simultaneities, and juxtapositions, new ways of understanding and perhaps even surmounting the tumult and confusions of contemporary life. Sure to spark lively--even heated--debate, The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word belongs in the library of millennium-watchers everywhere. |
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... century - for perhaps the first time in human history - it began to seem as if images would gain the upper hand over words . We know this . Evidence of the growing popularity of images has been difficult to ignore . It has been ...
... century - for perhaps the first time in human history - it began to seem as if images would gain the upper hand over words . We know this . Evidence of the growing popularity of images has been difficult to ignore . It has been ...
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... century the French writer Rabelais exclaimed , " Printing ... is now in use , so elegant and so correct , that better cannot be imagined . " 1 Almost half a millennium has passed . My contention , simply stated , is that we are finally ...
... century the French writer Rabelais exclaimed , " Printing ... is now in use , so elegant and so correct , that better cannot be imagined . " 1 Almost half a millennium has passed . My contention , simply stated , is that we are finally ...
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... century - for perhaps the first time in human history - it began to seem as if images would gain the upper hand over words . We know this . Evidence of the growing popularity of images has been difficult to ignore . It has been ...
... century - for perhaps the first time in human history - it began to seem as if images would gain the upper hand over words . We know this . Evidence of the growing popularity of images has been difficult to ignore . It has been ...
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... century are any guide , whatever new screens and services do find their way into our homes in coming decades are going to be filled not so much with words or still graphics but with moving images . The word television appears often in ...
... century are any guide , whatever new screens and services do find their way into our homes in coming decades are going to be filled not so much with words or still graphics but with moving images . The word television appears often in ...
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... CENTURY A.D. A REPRESENTATION OF THE EGYPTIAN GOD THOTH , DEFENDER OF A NEW FORM OF COMMUNICATION . " In the far north , where there is snow , all bears 638 while Novaya Zemlya is in the far north and there is always snow there what ...
... CENTURY A.D. A REPRESENTATION OF THE EGYPTIAN GOD THOTH , DEFENDER OF A NEW FORM OF COMMUNICATION . " In the far north , where there is snow , all bears 638 while Novaya Zemlya is in the far north and there is always snow there what ...
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THE MAGIC OF IMAGES | 55 |
THE NEW VIDEO | 131 |
Acknowledgments | 231 |
Photo credits | 232 |
Notes | 233 |
Bibliography | 246 |
Index | 254 |
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