Zaprudered
"In a newly published book, Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture , the Norwegian scholar Oyvind Vagnes attempts to trace the tangled history of the film and the ways in which it has travelled through popular culture, imprinting itself on our collective memory of the assassination." John Byrne, The Irish Times "Oyvind Vagnes examines how the images from Zapruder's film have traveled and spread virally through American culture over the past almost-50 years, recycled and re-mediated endlessly in picture magazines and television news, to art works - from paintings to video art to installations - to novels, Hollywood cinema, TV sitcoms, video games, and 3-D virtual reality animation." - The Sixties
This fascinating account examines how Abraham Zapruder's accidental footage of the Kennedy assassination has been transformed from documentary evidence to an aesthetic and cultural lodestone Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Texas Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780292745254
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Peter C. Rollins Book Award 2012 United States.
Anmeldelser
"In a newly published book, Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture , the Norwegian scholar Oyvind Vagnes attempts to trace the tangled history of the film and the ways in which it has travelled through popular culture, imprinting itself on our collective memory of the assassination." John Byrne, The Irish Times "Oyvind Vagnes examines how the images from Zapruder's film have traveled and spread virally through American culture over the past almost-50 years, recycled and re-mediated endlessly in picture magazines and television news, to art works - from paintings to video art to installations - to novels, Hollywood cinema, TV sitcoms, video games, and 3-D virtual reality animation." - The Sixties