Peripatetic Frame: Images of Walking in Cinema

Cinema and walking have been intertwined since its early days, with pioneers using cameras to study ambulatory motion and capture the speed and mobile culture of late 19th-century urban life. Photographers like Felix Nadar took their cameras into the streets, ushering in the age of the mobilized virtual gaze. The cinema brought these instants to life again, with Muybridge and Marey's photographic studies of motion, Charlie Chaplin's character The Tramp, and the Steadicam. Thomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking, breaking new ground in motion studies and providing a bold new perspective on film history.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2019
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

From the earliest days of cinema, walking and filmmaking have been intricately intertwined, with pioneers of the medium not only utilizing the camera to scientifically study ambulatory motion but also capturing the fast-paced and mobile culture of late 19th-century urban life. Photographers like Felix Nadar took their cameras into the streets of Paris, ushering in the age of the mobilized virtual gaze. However, while photography could only capture modernity in a single moment, the cinema brought these moments to life again. Thomas Deane Tucker delves into the intricate relationship between cinema and walking, exploring its origins, development, and impact on film history. From Muybridge and Marey's pioneering photographic studies of motion to Charlie Chaplin's iconic character, "The Tramp," and from the Steadicam to the police procedural, Tucker's work breaks new ground in motion studies and offers a fresh perspective on the history of cinema.

Weight: 400g
Dimension: 161 x 242 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474409292