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Movement As Meaning: In Experimental Film (Consciousness Literature the Arts, 13) by Daniel Barnett is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"This book offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference. He then develops a hyper-simplified formula of movement as meaning to discuss, with true equivalence, the process of reference as it occurs in natural language, technical language, poetic language, painting, photography, music, and of course, cinema. Barnett then applies his analytic technique to an original perspective on cine-poetics based on Paul Valerys concept of omnivalence, and to a projection of how this style of analysis, derived from analog cinema, can help us clarify our view of the digital mediasphere and its relation to consciousness." "Informed by the philosophy of Quine, Dennett, Merleau-Ponty as well as the later work of Wittgenstein, among others, he uses the film work of Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad,
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- Author
- Daniel Barnett
- Publisher
- NY : Rodopi
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789042023857
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sports, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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