The Madness of Images and Thinking Cinema
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William D. Routt
La Trobe University
w.routt@latrobe.edu.au
Abstract: This article attempts a preliminary understanding of the experience–or sensation–of place evoked in the cinema, based on some of the earliest films and their spectators. It exposits certain ideas contained in Vachel Lindsay’s The Art of the Moving Picture and finds a delirious resemblance between these ideas and some in Gilles Deleuze’s two Cinema books. Perhaps the piece suggests that madness is a property of the sensation of place in the cinema. Animated GIF files, maddening their sources, offer a crude supplementary patchwork commentary.–wdr
- Section 1: The Event of the Cinema
- Section 2: The Mad Poet Dwells in Images and The Plagiarism
- Section 3: Thinking Images
- References
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