Cinema Journal (2012) - Remembering Cinema "Elsewhere": From Retrospection to Introspection in the Gallery Film
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- article: Remembering Cinema "Elsewhere": From Retrospection to Introspection in the Gallery Film
- author(s): Catherine Fowler
- journal: Cinema Journal (2012)
- issue: volume 51, issue 2, pages 26-45
- journal ISSN: 1527-2087
- publisher: University of Texas Press
- keywords: 1990-2012, 24 Hour Psycho (1993), Alfred Hitchcock, Analysis, André Bazin, Art, Artists, Cahiers du Cinéma, Cinematography, Douglas Gordon, Dramatic arts, Film, Film history, Filmmakers, Fredric Jameson, Ingrid Bergman, Installation art, Janet Leigh, Laura Mulvey, Martin Scorsese, Michael Powell, Motion pictures, New York City, New York, New Zealand, Notorious (1946), Psycho (1960), Raymond Bellour, Rear Window (1954), Referentiality, Rudolph Maté, Stanley Cavell, Steve McQueen, Under Capricorn (1949), Vertigo (1958), William Friedkin, Works
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Abstract
Since 1990 a body of gallery films has remade cinema's past using remembered rather than memorable images. This essay connects examples such as L'ellipse (Pierre Huyghe, 1998), Deadpan (Steve McQueen, 1997), and Zoo (Salla Tykkä, 2006) to cinephilia and the ideas of Maya Deren, Stanley Cavell, and Victor Burgin, so as to theorize introspective and circumspective uses of cinema's past that challenge our understanding of "the image" in exciting ways.