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The orientation of future cinema : technology, aesthetics, spectacle / Bruce Isaacs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Isaacs, Bruce, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital media--Influence.
- Digital media.
- Motion picture industry--Technological innovations.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is the fate of cinema in an age of new technologies, new aesthetic styles, new modes of cultural production and consumption? What becomes of cinema and a century-long history of the moving image when the theatre is outmoded as a social and aesthetic space, as celluloid gives over to digital technology, as the art-house and multiplex are overtaken by a proliferation of home entertainment systems? The Orientation of Future Cinema offers an ambitious and compelling argument for the continued life of cinema as image, narrative and experience. Commencing with Lumière's Arrival of a Train at a Station, Bruce Isaacs confronts the threat of contemporary digital technologies and processes by returning to cinema's complex history as a technological and industrial phenomenon. The technology of moving images has profoundly changed; and yet cinema materialises ever more forcefully in digital capture and augmentation, 3-D perception and affect, High Frame Rate cinema, and the evolution of spectacle as the dominant aesthetic mode in contemporary studio production
- Contents:
- The age of late cinema. On cinematic experience
- Theoretical trajectories in the age of late cinema: time and space
- The autonomous image of cinema
- The spectacle image. New American cinemas: 1967-1979
- The technological image
- Neo-baroque form: excess and disambiguation
- Spectacle affect
- On the characteristics of future cinema.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-278) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages [279]-285.
- ISBN:
- 9781628924312
- 9781628929102
- 1628929103
- 9781623569136
- 1623569133
- 9781441141590
- 1441141596
- OCLC:
- 858764733
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