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Supercinema : film-philosophy for the digital age / William Brown.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, William, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Digital cinematography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides its technological omnipotence through the use of continued conventions more suited to analogue cinema, in a way that is analogous to t
- Contents:
- Digital cinema's conquest of space
- The deanthropocentric character of digital cinema
- From temporalities to time in digital cinema
- The film-spectator-world assemblage
- Concluding with love.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-207-8
- 1-78238-901-6
- 0-85745-950-3
- OCLC:
- 855505464
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