Monograph. Editor: Thomas Elsaesser. — Amsterdam University Press, 2010. — 249 p. — (Film Culture In Transition).
[from Introduction]: This book is about the emergence of the moving image, that is, an image that moves by itself. At some point, self-moving images acquired an intrinsic role in our media ecologies, circulating automatically in such ordinary settings as the mobile phone and the television as well as in more glorious places such as the art gallery or the movie theatre. It is obvious that a wide variety of technological animations of the world have become embedded and ubiquitous in our lives even to the point of confusing demarcations between their own dynamic quality and the dynamics of what they are about.
The chapters that follow will take a genealogical look at the early steps that made these automatic images become an intrinsic part of our experiences, feelings and thoughts, in a word, of our being.