60x90/16, paperback, ill., 384 pp., 2007
ISBN 5-86793-539-6

In his new book, the Russian scholar Oleg Aronson investigates the role of film as a technology which has altered the character of man’s perception as well as his thinking. Film exposes us to high-speed, constantly vanishing images, which have nonetheless become standard for our contemporary world. The author emphasizes the communicative nature of the image, while for him communication itself is not to be interpreted in a social, linguistic or informational key. It is the space of communication, where another, de-individualized perceptive subject is created, and where a different system of values is formed. Aronson also focuses his attention on the pervasive influence of film on contemporary literature and philosophy, and on the resulting changes in methods of expression and scientific analysis in the humanities caused by this interaction.

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