[Commlist] New book: Place and the Moving Image

New book: /Place and the Moving Image: Experimental Film Practice as 
Topography, /by Elisabeth Brun / - /published by Routledge, is available 
as hardback and e-book.

https://www.routledge.com/Place-and-the-Moving-Image-Experimental-Film-Practice-as-Topography/Brun/p/book/9781032778976 
<https://www.routledge.com/Place-and-the-Moving-Image-Experimental-Film-Practice-as-Topography/Brun/p/book/9781032778976>

*Description:*

/Place and the Moving Image/ examines /place/ as a critical generative 
force in experimental and essayist  film - a vital lens for 
understanding the eco-critical and epistemological potential of moving 
image arts and their modes of thinking. Through a rigorous and 
interdisciplinary approach that combines theory, close readings of 
essayist and materialist film practices, and artistic research in her 
sub-Arctic home village, Brun explores how the moving image can perform 
 a kind of place thinking: rendering visible the subtle dynamics 
between perception, environment, and technological mediation.Rather than 
separating theory and practice, this book shows how both emerge from the 
same topographical foundation, developing the concept of /Moving Image 
Topography/ - a critical and artistic framework of thinking through the 
camera.

Engaging scholars, artists, and practitioners- across fields such as 
film and media studies, visual art, design, architecture, and 
philosophy, this book will appeal to those interested in place, 
environmental aesthetics, indigenous perspectives, and critical film 
practice.

The experimental film /3xShapes of Home/ 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=838cNYD0qsY> (2020) is central to this 
study and is included as a Routledge Support Material to this book.

If you have any questions, I’d be happy to hear from you. Get in touch 
with me - the author (elisabrun /at/ me.com) <mailto:(elisabrun /at/ me.com)>, or the 
editor (Suzanne.Richardson /at/ tandf.co.uk) 
<mailto:(Suzanne.Richardson /at/ tandf.co.uk)>

The book is part of the Book-series : Routledge Advances in Filmstudies 
<https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advances-in-Film-Studies/book-series/RAFS>

*Endorsements:*

"Place, as distinct from space, remains a problematic topic in 
contemporary theory, including film theory, often being overlooked or 
neglected.  In a highly original and creative undertaking, Elisabeth 
Brun’s new book addresses this issue head-on, showing how experimental 
film, and film more broadly, is fundamentally shaped by its 
topographical character. This a major contribution both to film theory 
and to the thinking of place that is likely to have an important impact 
well beyond the confines of film theory alone."

-- Jeff Malpas/, University of Tasmania, Australia/

"Numerous studies of the essay film have appeared in recent years, but 
Brun's book stands out as one of the most sophisticated and original. It 
brilliantly focuses on the topos of place as part of the recent spatial 
turn in the arts and humanities and as a rich and often overlooked arena 
for essayistic epistemological strategies. That the author’s own 
stunning essay film /3xshapes of Home--/a meditative representation 
about the village in which she grew up--parallels and supports this 
argument adds a scintillating layer to this superb work."

-- Timothy Corrigan/, University of Pennsylvania, USA/

"Elisabeth Brun’s book is a beautifully fluid synthesis of explorations 
between theoretical and creative realms, offering its readers engaging 
and stimulating perspectives through which to deepen understandings of 
the human relationship with place. Through the tool of the camera and 
essay-film, and with emphasis on embodiment and ways of knowing, her 
research foregrounds ‘topographical thinking’ and the essential role of 
place in meaning-making and identity. Brun’s weaving of artistic 
practice, theoretical inquiry, and methodological innovation makes 
compelling reading for academics and practitioners across film, 
geography, architecture, landscape architecture, the environmental 
humanities, and all those concerned with the power and potential of 
spatial experience.”

-- Anna Ryan/, architect and geographer, University of Limerick, Ireland/

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*Table of contents:*

Introduction

Part I: Place, Perception and Cinematic Thinking

1. Beyond Politics: On How the Essay Film Thinks

2. Born Out of a Topographical Sense: From Space to (Unspoken) Place in 
Cinema Theory

Part II: Towards a Moving Image Topography

3. Thinking Film Through Place: Topos and Experimental Practice

4. Topographical Acts of Movement (TAM): The Acts and Attitudes of Film 
Thinking

5. /3xShapes of Home/: a Topographical Moving Image Experiment

Conclusion

/Script - 3xShapes of Home (7:00 min) /

/Index/

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