Most books about cinema; whether popular or academic; concentrate on what we might call the lsquo;insidersquo; of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the lsquo;outsidersquo; of films speak mainly of such aspects of production and reception as the organization of the film industry and the sociology of audiences: the Hollywood studio system; for example; or fan clubs. The Remembered Film is unique in addressing a previously overlooked aspect of cinema: the isolated fragments of films; iconic images or scenes; that fleetingly cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of everyday life.Victor Burgin examines a kaleidescope of film fragments drawn from a variety of media; the internet; memory and fantasy. Among these are sequences of such brevity they might almost be stills. Such lsquo;sequence-imagesrsquo;; as Burgin calls them; are neither strictly lsquo;imagersquo; nor lsquo;image sequencersquo; and have not been considered before by either film or photography theory. He also considers some typical individual experiences lsquo;sampledrsquo; from mainstream cinema. He reflects on such disparate occurrences as the association in memory of fragments from otherwise unrelated films; of the relation of a recollected film image to an architectural setting; or of a feeling lsquo;markedrsquo; by an image remembered from a film.The Remembered Film provides a radical new way of thinking about film outside conventional cinema; and in relation to our everyday lives. It will appeal to a wide audience interested in film and media.
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