Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art

Jill Murphy is an independent scholar. Laura Rascaroli is Professor of Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, Ireland.

• List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Foreword: Courtesy of the Artists, by Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Introduction: On Cinema Expanding, by Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli, Part One: Materialities, 1. Cinema as (In)Visible Object: Looking, Making, and Remaking, by Matilde Nardelli, 2. Objects in Time: Artefacts in Artists' Moving Image, by Alison Butler, 3. Materializing the Body of the Actor: Labour, Memory, and Storage, by Maeve Connolly, 4. How to Spell 'Film': Gibson & Recoder's Alphabet of Projection, by Volker Pantenburg, Part Two: Immaterialities, 5. The Magic of Shadows: Distancing and Exposure in William Kentridge's More Sweetly Play the Dance, by Jill Murphy, 6. Douglas Gordon and the Gallery of the Mind, by Sarah Cooper, 7. A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance: Tacita Dean's Section Cinema (Homage to Marcel Broodthaers), by Kirstie North, Part Three: Temporalities, 8. The Photo-Filmic Diorama, by Agnes Petho, 9. The Cinematic Dispositif and its Ghost: Sugimoto's Theaters, by Stefano Baschiera, 10. Time/Frame: On Cinematic Duration, by Laura Rascaroli, Part Four: The Futures of the Image, 11. Interactivity without Control: David OReilly's Everything (2017) and the Representation of Totality, by Andrew V. Uroskie, 12. Post-Cinematic Unframing, by Lisa Åkervall, 13. Absolute Immanence, by D. N. Rodowick, Index.