Mary Ann Doane is Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive and Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Scale, the Cinematic Image, and the Negotiation of Space  1Part I. Close-Up/Face1. The Delirium of a Minimal Unit  292. The Cinematic Manufacture of Scale, or Historical Vicissitudes of the Close-Up  533. At Face Value  89Part II. Scale/Screen4. Screens, Female Faces, and Modernities  1355. The Location of the Image: Projection, Perspective, and Scale  1896. The Concept of Immersion: Mediated Space, Media Space, and the Location of the Subject  239Notes  283Bibliography  325Index  343

“Matching her earlier, masterful treatment of cinematic time, Mary Ann Doane here offers a brilliant probing of cinematic space. She explores cinema’s dynamic use of scale, from the magnification of the face in close-up to new screen technologies ranging from the iPhone to IMAX. Drawing on a range of film styles and practices, including early cinema, avant-garde experiments, and Shanghai cinema of the 1930s, Doane reveals how cinema has shaped a modern abstract and even dematerialized world.” - Tom Gunning, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago “Mary Ann Doane’s highly innovative, theoretically brilliant, and eloquently incisive consideration of the history of the filmic close-up and its relation to scale will undoubtedly make Bigger Than Life a field-changing work.” - Maggie Hennefeld, author of (Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes) "Bigger Than Life opens with a unique and crucial examination of the history and historiography of the close-up, its conclusion offers a look at cinema in its biggest and most impactful forms, even cinema beyond cinema itself – this is where Doane’s work becomes truly colossal."- Harrison Whitaker (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television) "Bigger Than Life’s wide-ranging interrogation of its subject makes for a thrilling and rewarding read. [It] is altogether awe-inspiring and overwhelming in ways appropriate to its subject, constituting an important meditation on the dialogue between new and old media."- Alicia Byrnes (Film-Philosophy)