The Mobilized & Virtual Gaze in Modernity:Flaneur/FlaneuseFlaneur/Flaneuse

1 About the Author1. About the Author

2. Some of the terms

3. Panorama & Diorama

vs Panopticap

4. Where to now?

Who is Anne Friedberg?Who is Anne Friedberg?1952 -2009

A historian and theorist of modern media culture, interests include film and media histories and theories and media histories and theories, visual culture and early cinema, theories of vision and visuality,

hit t d fil l b l di architecture and film, global media culture.

Major Works

• Close-Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, co-edited by Anne Friedberg, James Donald and Laura Marcus (Princeton University Press 1998)James Donald and Laura Marcus (Princeton University Press, 1998)

• Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern, by Anne Friedberg (University of California Press, 1993)

Th Vi l Wi d F Alb i Mi f b A F i db (Th MIT • The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft, by Anne Friedberg (The MIT Press, 2006)

Some of the termsSome of the terms

• Modernity: a social formation coincident with late 18th and early 19th century y 9 yindustrialisation and urbanisation

• Gaze: Mobilized and virtual visuality• Gaze: Mobilized and virtual visuality

• Mobilized & Virtual Gaze: Spacial and temporal mobility

Flaneur & FlaneuseFlaneur & Flaneuse

Flaneur wandered the streets in modern times observing but not participatingg p p g

Fl i h f l i l b did Flaneuse is the female equivalent but did not really have a place until the development of the cinema & ultimately the shopping mallmall

Panoptica & the cinemaPanoptica & the cinema

• Panoptic model was used as an explanation in the development of the p pcinema, due to:

film spectator being totally invisible- film spectator being totally invisible

- the cinema is in an enclosed space

However…

th ti d l d t l th the panoptic model does not explore the subjectivity of the observer

The PanoramaThe Panorama

Panorama vs PanopticaPanorama vs Panoptica

The dioramaThe diorama

Diorama vs PanopticaDiorama vs Panoptica

Where does this lead us to?Where does this lead us to?

• In cinematic times – the viewer remained immobile in front of the screen, now we ,have “new forms of ever-virtual mobility”

• Multi screen “windows” • Multi-screen windows

• Window shopping & windows shopping converge

ReferencesReferences

Cl U Ci d • Close-Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, co-edited by Anne Friedberg, J D ld d L M (P i t James Donald and Laura Marcus (Princeton University Press, 1998)

i d h i i d h• Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern, by Anne Friedberg (University

f C lif i P )of California Press, 1993)• The Virtual Window: From Alberti to

Microsoft, by Anne Friedberg (The MIT Press, 2006)