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The end of cinema? : a medium in crisis in the digital age / André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion ; translated by Timothy Barnard.
LIBRA PN1995 .G335 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaudreault, André, author.
- Marion, Philippe, author.
- Series:
- Film and culture
- Standardized Title:
- Fin du cinéma? English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Technological innovations.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Digital media.
- Physical Description:
- x, 240 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion support cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscape. They engage with the major arguments of the "digitalphobes" who lament the implosion of cinema and the "digitalphobes" who celebrate its new incarnation. Throughout, Gaudreault and Marion show how cinema has always been a fast-evolving, dynamic art and that the digital revolution is just another disruption in the history of motion pictures, with more to come. Emphasizing the cultural practice of cinema over rigid claims on its identity, Gaudreault and Marion advance a fresh conception of cinema that better reflects its essential vitality. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The end of cinema?
- Cinema is not what it used to be
- Digitalizing cinema from top to bottom
- A brief phenomenology of 'digitalized' cinema
- From shooting to filming: the Aufhebung effect
- A medium is always born twice
- New variants of the moving image
- 'Animage' and the new visual culture
- Conclusion: A medium in crisis in the digital age.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- "Adapted from La fin du cinéma: Un média en crise à l¿ère du numérique ... Armand Colin, Paris, 2013, first edition."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231173568
- 0231173563
- 9780231173575
- 0231173571
- OCLC:
- 890807932
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