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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... early stage of development , condemned mostly to imitating older forms of commu- nication . Film has not advanced much further . We are just beginning to develop the original techniques that will exploit the full potential of moving ...
... early stage of development , condemned mostly to imitating older forms of commu- nication . Film has not advanced much further . We are just beginning to develop the original techniques that will exploit the full potential of moving ...
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... early development of writing , print and a few other communications technologies for per- spective on what we have seen from television and are likely to see from video . The book's second part mines a different history . The rise of ...
... early development of writing , print and a few other communications technologies for per- spective on what we have seen from television and are likely to see from video . The book's second part mines a different history . The rise of ...
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... OF LETTERS Writing and the Power of New Media " Early forms of writing Babylonian clay tablets in various shapes with cunciform writing , dating back as far as 2600 KC . For the word was the glory of mankind ... -Thomas.
... OF LETTERS Writing and the Power of New Media " Early forms of writing Babylonian clay tablets in various shapes with cunciform writing , dating back as far as 2600 KC . For the word was the glory of mankind ... -Thomas.
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... early as seventy - five thousand years ago . Attempts at figurative art — including depictions of animal heads and ... earliest known - were probably created about 15,000 B.C.4 So all these scratchings and drawings - the oldest ancestors.
... early as seventy - five thousand years ago . Attempts at figurative art — including depictions of animal heads and ... earliest known - were probably created about 15,000 B.C.4 So all these scratchings and drawings - the oldest ancestors.
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... earliest writing systems used icons that represented things — a plow , a fish , the head of an ox . But they also referred directly to sounds : The name of the Egyptian king Narmer , who reigned around 3150 B.C. , was indicated , for ...
... earliest writing systems used icons that represented things — a plow , a fish , the head of an ox . But they also referred directly to sounds : The name of the Egyptian king Narmer , who reigned around 3150 B.C. , was indicated , for ...
Inhalt
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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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