The Off-Screen An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame

"Peretz's landmark discussion of the off-screen goes well beyond the technical definitions of Bazin, Bonitzer, or Deleuze. In his hands, the off-screen becomes the philosophical lynchpin of a new way of addressing modern art and the poetics of the modern image."-Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University "Think you know what a frame is? Well, this inspired book radically unframes and reframes the notion. Frames, Eyal Peretz brilliantly shows, are a negotiation with the specters, angels, or ghosts that works of art-from Bruegel to Tarantino-carry around as their (off-)trail."- Peter Szendy, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre. "Peretz reconstructs a sweeping genealogy of the frame - as that which is both in and outside - from the painted image to the theatrical stage to the cinematic screen itself. Peretz's project is an idiosyncratic endeavor in the best sense of the word, blending art theory, film theory, and philosophy, without taking shelter in the philological and historicist micropolitics of each respective discipline..."-Sulgi Lie, Texte zur Kunst "The Off-Screen, within the context of the invisible dimension of the "off," provides its readers with an insightful and incisive background of US cinema from Griffith to Tarantino. Apart from the obvious contribution to film studies, scholars in performance and visual studies will find themselves enthralled by Peretz's investigation of the frame."-Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari, The Drama Review