物語絵：イメージの静動をめぐって

(〈特集〉映像理論の周辺)

抄録

 Scrolls with illustrative pictures accompanied by stories such as the Genji Emaki furnished entertainment for court ladies in the Heian Era. Today, motion pictures with dramatic effects heightened by advanced technique provide us excitement and pleasure, while visual communication media are becoming more and more important in our modern mass culture.

 In contrast to the universal capacity for language which defines and extends human spiritual life, pictures have always their own unique mode of communication which empathizes subconsciousness. The system of producing movies by taking sequences of photographs and editing the resultant film is similar to the process of foming images and memories in our mind.

 People are able to amend prejudice and make their own interpretation of life while enjoying movies. People can also release their subconscious desire by seeing moving pictures, from which are created “dreams in daytime.” Thus the movie is the unique medium of modern mass culture which has changed society by altering its image of life.