The Human Shutter

The Human ShutterThe book celebrates art and artists, philosophers, and scientists inspired by stereoscopic vision. The origin of photographic cinema is reframed based on a multitude of visual examples. Based on what happens after light appears on the retina, the idea of the stereoscope as a tool of critical inquiry is also explored. 76 b&w, 17 col. illus. Read the Brooklyn Rail interview with the author, Robert L. Bowen.

Individual directors

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Sir Artegall

is a beautifully produced object in its own right

comprehensible context

and of propaganda

showing how it helped to establish director Aleksandr Sokurov as perhaps the leading filmmaker in Russia today

comic store clerks and costume-clad convention attendees

Among the contributors are Gordon Quinn

a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category

including translation and interpretation of the art form

the Vietnam War