Cinematic Interfaces Jeong Seung-hoon NYU Abu Dhabi
Cinematic Interfaces Jeong Seung-hoon NYU Abu Dhabi In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this…
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Cinematic Interfaces Jeong Seung-hoon NYU Abu Dhabi
In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this mediation be understood not simply as transparent and efficient but rather as asymmetrical, ambivalent, immanent, and multidirectional. Drawing on a range of films, Jeong examines cinematic interfaces seen on screen and the spectator's experience of them, including: the direct appearance of a camera/filmstrip/screen, the character's bodily contact with such a medium-interface, the object's surface and the subject's face as "quasi-interface," and the image itself. Jeong enlists the new media term "interface" to bring to film theory a synthetic notion of interfaciality as underlying the multifaceted nature of both the image and subjectivity.
Each of these case studies serves as a platform for remapping and revamping major concepts in