{"title":"“Beyond Beyond”: Cymbeline, the Camera Obscura, and the Ontology of Elsewhere","authors":"W. Hyman","doi":"10.1086/721064","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"C avemen invented the camera—or to be a little more precise about it, paleo people discovered moving pictures. This, at least, is the conclusion some archeologists and historians derive from the peculiar quality of lively motion seen in the earliest known forms of art. ForWerner Herzog, regarding 30,000-year-old charcoal quadrupeds flickering in light and shadow against rock walls is “almost a form of proto-cinema.” Far from “primitive” and anything but static, these undulating, imbricated figures give “the illusion of movement, like frames in an animated film.” Deep in the Paleolithic caves of what is now France, only firelight would have","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721064","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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C avemen invented the camera—or to be a little more precise about it, paleo people discovered moving pictures. This, at least, is the conclusion some archeologists and historians derive from the peculiar quality of lively motion seen in the earliest known forms of art. ForWerner Herzog, regarding 30,000-year-old charcoal quadrupeds flickering in light and shadow against rock walls is “almost a form of proto-cinema.” Far from “primitive” and anything but static, these undulating, imbricated figures give “the illusion of movement, like frames in an animated film.” Deep in the Paleolithic caves of what is now France, only firelight would have
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English Literary Renaissance is a journal devoted to current criticism and scholarship of Tudor and early Stuart English literature, 1485-1665, including Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, and Milton. It is unique in featuring the publication of rare texts and newly discovered manuscripts of the period and current annotated bibliographies of work in the field. It is illustrated with contemporary woodcuts and engravings of Renaissance England and Europe.