Technology and Film Scholarship Experience, Study, Theory / edited by Santiago Hidalgo ; foreword by Andre Gaudreault.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hidalgo, Santiago, Editor.

Contributor:

Gaudreault, André, writer of foreword.

Hidalgo, Santiago, editor.

Series:

Film theory in media history.

Film theory in media history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Filmtheorie.

Technology in motion pictures.

Technology in motion pictures--History.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This volume brings together a wide range of research on the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience, study and theorization of film. Drawn from the IMPACT film conference (The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Historiography and Theory of Cinema) held in Montreal in 2011, the book includes contributions from such leading figures in the field as Tom Gunning, Charles Musser, Jan Olsson and Vinzenz Hediger."--Publisher website

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section I Experience

1. When Did Cinema Become Cinema? Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures / Charles Musser

2. Exhibition Practices in Transition: Spectators, Audiences, and Projectors / Jan Olsson

3. Reel Changes: Post-mortem Cinephilia or the Resistance of Melancholia / Andre Habib

4. Walter Benjamin's Play Room: Where the Future So Eloquently Nests, or: What is Cinema Again? / Dana Cooley

Section II Study

5. Hitchcock, Film Studies, and New Media: The Impact of Technology on the Analysis of Film / David Colangelo

6. Film Analysis and Statistics: A Field Report / Charles O'Brien

7. A `Distant Reading' of the `Chaser Theory': Local Views and the Digital Generation of New Cinema History / Paul Moore

Section III Theory

8. Cine-Graphism: A New Approach to the Evolution of Film Language through Technology / Tom Gunning

9. Can We Have the Cave and Leave It Too? On the Meaning of Cinema as Technology / Vinzenz Hediger

10. On Viewfinders, Video Assist Systems, and Tape Splicers: Questioning the History of Techniques and Technology in Cinema / Benoit Turquety.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-70496-4

1-04-077237-4

90-485-2527-6

9781003704966

OCLC:

1020691680