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Mitchell Stephens asserts that the moving image is likely to make our thoughts not more feeble but more robust. 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.
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Motion pictures, Philosophy, Social aspects, Social aspects of Television broadcasting, Television, Television broadcasting, Visual communication, Beeldcultuur, Fernsehen, Cultuurverandering, Aspect social, Télévision, Philosophie au cinéma, Films, Visuelle Kommunikation, Televisie, Neue Medien, Fernsehforschung, Communication visuelle, Philosophie, Film, Mass media, social aspects, Intellectual life, Mass media and culture, Television broadcasting, social aspects, Motion pictures, philosophyShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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The rise of the image, the fall of the word
1998, Oxford University Press
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