Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image is of broad concern to historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations which no longer presuppose a fixed viewer, urban space becomes envisioned and planned through "fly throughs," and technologies such as GPS add data to the experience of travel, moving images have captured the attention of geographers and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Their practice of "mobility studies" is remaking how we understand a contemporary world in relentless motion. Media theorist and historian Anne Friedberg (1952-2009) was among the first practitioners of visual studies to theorize the experience of vision in motion. Her books have become key points of reference in the discussion of the windows that frame images and the viewers in motion who perceive them. Although widely influential beyond her own discipline, Friedberg's work has never been the subject of an extended study. The Moving Eye: Film, Television, Architecture, Visual Art and the Modern gathers together essays by renowned thinkers in media studies, art history, architecture, and museum studies to consider the rich implications of her work for understanding film and video, new media, visual art, architecture, exhibition design, urban space, and virtual reality. Ranging from early cinema, to works by Le Corbusier, Sergei Eisenstein, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Pierre Huyghe, to theories of the image in motion informed by psychoanalysis, theories of the public sphere, and animal studies, each of the nine essays in the book advances the lines of inquiry commenced by Friedberg.

About the Author
Edward Dimendberg is Professor of Humanities and European Languages at the University of California, Irvine. He is the principal of Dimendberg Consulting LLC.

Reviews
The best kind of tribute to a lifework's of pathbreaking scholarship, The Moving Eye brings together brilliant essays that develop Anne Friedberg's interdisciplinary approach to cinema, media, architecture, and visual perception. Building on Friedberg's major contributions, this collection shows how her fascination with the history of screens, windows, and virtual mobility has become even more relevant in contemporary digital culture. * Lynn Spigel, Frances E.S Willard Chair of Screen Cultures, Northwestern University *
Marvelous, eloquent, and evocative, The Moving Eye takes up the pas de deux of image and envisioning across the domains of film, architecture, photography, and television. Its carefully curated essays offer an intellectually moving tribute to the generative powers of Anne Friedberg's legacy, and a critical interrogation of vision -- and a visual culture -- in motion. * William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT *



Book Information
ISBN 9780190218447
Author Edward Dimendberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 499g
Dimensions(mm) 175mm * 251mm * 15mm