Man and Camera Become One
2024; Berghahn Books; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3167/proj.2024.180204
ISSN1934-9696
Autores Tópico(s)Science Education and Perceptions
ResumoAbstract Since its introduction in 1976, the rhetoric surrounding Steadicam has emphasized the embodied nature of the technology. This article tests these claims against scholarly work on visual conventions as well as on embodiment and the related concept of Image Schemas as coined by Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja. I will link both these approaches to the underlying idea of contingent human universals and how these undergird visual conventions. I will also turn to the field of evolutionary biology and epigenetic inheritance to add a (evolutionary) biological lens to these concepts. In doing so, I will argue for Steadicam's very special relationship with embodied camera movement and the specific new visual conventions it instigated.
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