Rethinking Bazin: Ontology and Realist Aesthetics

Film Theory: The Basics

“…"Statement on Sound" in Eisenstein (1998). 16 See, for example, Andrew (2011) and Morgan (2006). 13 See Thomas Y. Levin's "Introduction" in Kracauer (1995), Miriam Hansen's "Introduction" in Kracauer (1997), and Hansen (2012).…”

Soundtrack in Mind

“…Each image [is] just a fragment of reality existing before any meanings. (1971: 37) As an ontological matter, "Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image" (Bazin 1967a: 15-16; but see the subtle reinterpretation of Morgan 2006). Likewise, sound for Bazin is designed to translate "the physiology of existence" into "the concrete integral" in a way exactly parallel to the image, yet independent (Bazin 1967b: 131, 133, 139).…”

Proper Corruption: Index and Metaphor in Photographs of the Embalmed Corpse of Eva Perón

“…These "entailments" are of utmost necessity to the filmmakers' ends in The Unquiet Grave. 23 First, in order to function as proof and to serve the function of revenge, the photograph, although it is not the same thing as the corpse, must indisputably refer to a reality "behind" it. Second, the photograph must function as evidence of a past moment, because in the present it is not possible to see these mutilations, first of all because the corpse is buried, and second of all because the mutilations were later cosmetically repaired and do not appear in subsequent, widely circulated photographs.…”