Abstract Drawing on the application of C. S. Peirce’s notion of indexicality, this paper argues that iterative imaging technologies modulate the manner in which moving images represent reality and determine how they are traced back to that referent. Rather than subscribing to the canonical divergence between analogue and digital technologies, the paper argues that current moving image theories do not sufficiently acknowledge the granularity of technology when describing indexical relationships between moving images and the reality they represent. Despite a shared use of analogue technologies, film’s technique of fixing a full frame of movement to a momentarily static strip of light-sensitive celluloid or Mylar is profoundly different from analogue video’s parsing of the image frame to its constituent parts and then recording this signal to continuously moving tape or broadcasting the resulting images. These are particularities of technique and technology, not easily ranked in terms of verisimilitude. The paper concludes that despite a widely accepted indexical analogue/digital divide, the indexical status of analogue video is no different to that of digital video images because both consist of discrete and non-continuous picture elements.

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公证性还是技术性中级？运动图像表示，实质性和真实性

摘要本文利用CS Peirce的索引性概念的应用，认为迭代成像技术可调节运动图像表示现实的方式并确定如何追溯到该对象。本文认为，当描述运动图像与它们所代表的现实之间的索引关系时，当前的运动图像理论并未充分承认技术的粒度，而没有遵循模拟技术与数字技术之间的规范差异。尽管共享使用了模拟技术，影片将整个运动帧固定到光敏赛璐oid或聚酯薄膜的瞬时静态条带上的技术与模拟视频将图像帧解析为其组成部分，然后将该信号记录到连续移动的磁带或广播所产生的图像上有很大不同。这些是技术的特殊性，很难根据真实性进行排名。本文的结论是，尽管索引模拟/数字鸿沟被广泛接受，但模拟视频的索引状态与数字视频图像的索引状态没有区别，因为两者均由离散和非连续的图片元素组成。