Forms of the Cinematic: Architecture, Science and the Arts - Paperback

by Mark Breeze (Editor)

This interdisciplinary collection explores how cinema calls into question its own frame of reference and, at the same time, how its form becomes the matter of its thought. Building on the axiom (cherished by philosophers of cinema from Epstein to Deleuze) that cinema is a medium that thinks in conjunction with its spectators, this book examines how various forms of the cinematic rethink and redraw the terrain of traditional disciplines, thereby enabling different modes of thought and practice. Areas under consideration by a range of leading academics and practitioners include architecture, science, writing in a visual field, event-theory and historiography.

Author Biography

Mark E. Breeze is a Harvard-trained architect, an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and the Director of Studies in Architecture at St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK. He completed his postdoctorate at the University of Oxford, and he has held fellowships at the US Library of Congress and The Huntington, Los Angeles. His academic and creative practice explores the intersections between architecture and film.