Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image

Abstract

Laura Mulvey. ill. ; 22 cm. 1. Passing time 2. Uncertainty : natural magic and the art of deception 3. The index and the uncanny : life and death in the photograph 4. The death drive : narrative movement stilled 5. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) 6. Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy Viaggio in Italia (1953) 7. Abbas Kiarostami : cinema of uncertainty, cinema of delay 8. Delaying cinema 9. The possessive spectator 10. The pensive spectator.