No Power Without an Image: Icons Between Photography and Film (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality)

No Power Without an Image: Icons Between Photography and Film (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality)

Libby Saxton
$120.00
Publication Date: October 29th, 2020
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
9781474463157
Pages:
192
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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.

About the Author

Libby Saxton is Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is author of Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust (Wallflower, 2008), co-author of Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium (Legenda: 2013). She is writing a book on iconic images, photography and cinema.

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