Blur
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Fordham University Press
- Date of Publication 3 February 2026
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781531511746
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 178x127 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 color illustrations 700
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Long description:
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In cinema, blurriness is usually intended to go unnoticed. When it appears it is either considered an error – a mistake of focus or a technological failure – or a background effect of shallow focus intended to offset a defined image. As Martine Beugnet argues, however, blur is an essential feature of the cinema, possessing its own properties and affordances, and capable of powerful effects.
Examining an array of notable examples of blurriness from horror to art cinema and experimental film, and including the works of the Lumière brothers, Josef von Sternberg, Agnès Varda and many others, she develops a taxonomy of blurs, from speed and motion blur to the hand-held, ""shaky camera"" blur common in contemporary digital cinema. These wide-ranging instances all return the viewer to the sensorial and material qualities of the moving image.
In the face of technological developments that valorize sharpness as an indicator of progress, blur stands as a provocative reminder of the value of uncertainty—a sign of the irreducible mystery at the heart of the filmic image.
Table of Contents:
Prologue (Myopia) 1
In Praise of Indistinction 7
Blur’s Paradox: Images That Kill, 18 •
High-Definition Blur, 20
Definition 24
Aesthetics of Blur 26
Rain, Mist, Fog 29
Focus 34
Alfred Hitchcock: Blur, or the Staging of Desire, 36 •
Alain Cavalier: Seeing Closer, 41 • Seeing [and]
Touching, 43 • The Tactile Eye, 46
Motion Blur 49
Speeds, 50 • Slow Motion [Jean-Luc Godard], 55 •
Shakiness [Sally Potter], 60 •
Interlacings [Leighton Pierce], 64
Reveries of the Image 68
Photogénie of Melancholy 75
The Painterly and the Formless 82
Pictorialism [Josef von Sternberg], 82 • The Appeal of
Abstraction [Michelangelo Antonioni], 89 •
Toward Formlessness, 92 • Limbo [Gus Van Sant], 94 •
Photogénie of Memory, 99
Technology Has No Rules 103
Notes 107
Figures 119
