"Can the Camera See? Mimesis in "Man with a Movie Camera
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4951171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm Turvey (0000-0001-8616-1670, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Pages | 25 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/779138 |
| OpenAlex | W2330258163 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
There is a remarkable sequence somewhere near the end of Man with a Movie Camera in which the movie camera, having enjoyed a starring role throughout the film, performs an encore. Emerging on its own onto a bare stage, the camera proceeds to walk about on its tripod like a human being, carefully displaying its limbs to the appreciative audience within the film and almost bowing to the audience in the process. The audience members smile with delight in recognition of the machine's virtuosity, and in doing so, echo the smiles of children from an earlier sequence in the film who witnessed and similarly delighted in the performance of a magician. And indeed, if we had to choose a human being whom the camera most clearly resembles at this moment, it would be the magician from the earlier sequence because of the aura of magic that surrounds its appearance on the stage. By conferring human attributes on his camera in this celebrated sequence of his 1929 film, Vertov is replicating in his film practice a major rhetorical tendency
Art · Computer graphics (images · Computer vision · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2019 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |