The Close-Up: Scale and Detail in the Cinema

IF 0.8 4区社会学 Q3 CULTURAL STUDIES

Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2003-12-30 DOI:10.1215/10407391-14-3-89

M. Doane

引用次数: 162

Abstract

One of the earliest attempts to produce film theory, that of the French Impressionists in the 1920s, generated a concept—photogénie—which is usually considered to be theoretically incoherent. No doubt this is due to the fact that photogénie is designed to account for that which is inarticulable, that which exceeds language and hence points to the very essence of cinematic specificity. Photogénie names a supplementarity, an enhancement, that which is added to an object in the process of its subjection to a photographic medium. For Epstein, it is inextricably bound up with an ethics: “I would describe as photogenic any aspect of things, beings or souls whose moral character is enhanced by filmic reproduction” (Bonjour 20). The close-up is the privileged site for this experience of photogénie, and Epstein often labored to produce a language that would be adequate to this experience. Witness, for instance, the linguistic contortions in his description of the close-up of a face breaking into a smile:

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特写:电影中的比例和细节

最早尝试建立电影理论的人之一，是20世纪20年代的法国印象派，他们提出了一个通常被认为在理论上是不连贯的概念——photog。毫无疑问，这是由于这样一个事实，即photogsamnie旨在解释那些无法表达的东西，那些超越语言的东西，因此指出了电影特殊性的本质。photogsamnie将物体置于摄影媒介之下的过程中所添加的东西称为补充物或增强物。对于爱泼斯坦来说，它与一种伦理学有着不可分割的联系:“我将把事物、人或灵魂的任何方面描述为上镜的，这些方面的道德品质是通过电影的再现而增强的”(Bonjour 20)。特写镜头是这种“光身综合症”体验的特权场所，爱泼斯坦经常努力创造一种足以表达这种体验的语言。例如，他在描述一张突然露出微笑的脸的特写时，用了一些语言上的扭曲:

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期刊介绍： differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies first appeared in 1989 at the moment of a critical encounter—a head-on collision, one might say—of theories of difference (primarily Continental) and the politics of diversity (primarily American). In the ensuing years, the journal has established a critical forum where the problematic of differences is explored in texts ranging from the literary and the visual to the political and social. differences highlights theoretical debates across the disciplines that address the ways concepts and categories of difference—notably but not exclusively gender—operate within culture.