Érik Bullot
Renversements 1
Author(s) Érik Bullot
Format softcover
Year 2009
Language(s) French
Pages 172 pages
Description
In the age of exhibition cinema and the screening of films on the domestic screens of computers or mobile phones, cinema seems to be undergoing a profound transformation.
Is it being overturned, in the sense of the end of a reign, by new media and new practices, or is it inverting, in dialectical terms, its own elements with a view to its supersession? "The reverse is worth the obverse," wrote Jean Epstein as early as the 1920s. Curiously, the motif of reversal, whether optical, plastic, dramatic, structural or musical, has long haunted the history of the medium.