Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space [Hardcover]

Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space offers an extended discussion of the morphology and structure of compositing, graphic juxtapositions, and montage employed in motion pictures. Drawing from the history of avant-garde and commercial cinema, as well as studio-based research, here media artist and theorist Michael Betancourt critiques cinematic realism and spatial montage in motion pictures. This new taxonomic framework for conceptualizing linkages between media art and narrative cinema opens new areas of experimentation for todays film editors, motion designers, and other media artists.

1. Introduction. 1.1 Definitions and Scope. 1.2 The Image Animation Problem . 1.3 The Taxonomic Approach. 1.4 Affect. 1.5 Motion Graphics. 1.6 Scope of Analysis. 2. Realism. 2.1 The Long Take. 2.2 Animation. 2.3 Abstraction. 2.4 Montage and Editing. 2.5 Realism versus Reality. 2.6 Simultaneous Action. 3. Windowing. 3.1 Conceptual Framework. 3.2 Multiple Image Compositions. 3.3 Technological Production. 3.4 Limited Scope in Manovichs Theorization. 3.5 Windowing. 4. Taxonomy. 4.1 TimeMotionSpace Displacement. 4.2 MotionSpace Displacement (Mirroring). 4.3 TimeSpace Displacement. 4.4 TimeMotion Displacement (Step-Printing). 4.5 Interdependence of Types. 5. Conclusions. 5.1 Commercial and Non-Commercial Forms. 5.2 Theory and Praxis. 6. Diagrams and Figures. Appendix. A.1 Semiotics of Morphology and Structure. A.2 Application. A.3 Aesthetics are History.

Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space offers an extended discussion of the morphology and structure of compositing, graphic juxtapositions, and montage employed in motion pictures. Drawing from the history of avant-garde and commercial cinema, as well as studio-based research, here media artist and thlÃ"