La rappresentazione dello sguardo nel cinema delle origini in Europa. Nascita della soggettiva

This book is the publication of the author’s doctoral thesis/PhD dissertation defended in 1989. It provides an answer to the question: “Where does the point-of-view shot come from?”, investigating the emergence of this filmic form as the product of a culture and its history. It is devided in two parts. The first one consists of an investigation of the archaeology of vision, where the point-of-view shot emerges as the extension of the perceptive experience of its spectator. It shows to what extent what would become the point-of-view shot developed from the interposition, between the eye and the world, of a prosthesis capable of modifying the conditions needed to access the visible, expanding the potential of human vision. And in doing so, it also unravels the difference between a point-of-view shot and a character's subjective viewpoint. The second part consists of hundreds descriptive data sheet of early films viewed at the National Film Archive (London, GB), the Cineteca Nazionale (Roma, Italy), the Cineteca di Bologna (Italy), the Cineteca del Friuli (Italy), the Centre National de la Cinématographie (Bois d'Arcy, Paris, France), the Institut Jean Vigo (Perpignan, France), the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), the Stiftung Deutsche Kinematek (Berlin, Germany), the Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Censier (Sorbonne Nouvelle University Video Archive, Paris 3, DERCAV).