No Power Without an Image : Icons Between Photography and Film

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Title: No Power Without an Image : Icons Between Photography and Film
Description: The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated photographs of political struggles, taken between 1936 and 1968, and cinema in all its forms. Moving from the ‘paper cinema'of magazines via newsreels and film journals, to documentary, fiction and experimental films, this fascinating book draws on original archival research and multidisciplinary icon theory to explore new ways of thinking about the confluence of still and moving images.
Authors: Libby Saxton
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Photography--History
Categories: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated photographs of political struggles, taken between 1936 and 1968, and cinema in all its forms. Moving from the ‘paper cinema'of magazines via newsreels and film journals, to documentary, fiction and experimental films, this fascinating book draws on original archival research and multidisciplinary icon theory to explore new ways of thinking about the confluence of still and moving images.
ISBN:9781474463157
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