Cinematicity in Media History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geiger, Jeffrey.

Contributor:

Littau, Karin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intermediality.

Media studies.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

Local Subjects:

Intermediality.

Media studies.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a world where change has become the only constant, how does the perpetually new relate to the old? How does cinema, itself once a new medium, relate both to previous or outmoded media and to what we now refer to as New Media? This collection sets out to examine these questions by focusing on the relations of cinema to other media, cultural productions and diverse forms of entertainment, demarcating their sometimes parallel and sometimes more closely conjoined histories. Cinematicity in Media History makes visible the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one oth

Contents:

Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Cinematicity and Comparative Media; Part 1 Cinematicity before Cinema; 1 Dickensian 'Dissolving Views': The Magic Lantern, Visual Story-telling and the Victorian Technolog; 2 'Never Has One Seen Reality Enveloped in Such a Phantasmagoria': Watching Spectacular Transformati; 3 Moving-picture Media and Modernity: Taking Intermediate and Ephemeral Forms Seriously; Part 2 Transitions: Early Cinema and Cinematicity; 4 Reading in the Age of Edison: The Cinematicity of 'The Yellow Wall-paper'

5 Time and Motion Studies: Joycean Cinematicity in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man6 Nature Caught in the Act: On the Transformation of an Idea of Art in Early Cinema; Part 3 Cinematicity in the 'Classic' Cinema Age; 7 Cinematicity of Speech and Visibility of Literature: The Poetics of Soviet Film Scripts of the Ea; 8 Making America Global: Cinematicity and the Aerial View ; 9 Invisible Cities, Visible Cinema: Illuminating Shadows in Late Film Noir; Part 4 Digital Cinematicity; 10 Cinema, Video, Game: Astonishing Aesthetics and the Cinematic 'Future' of Computer Graphics' Past

11 Miniature Pleasures: On Watching Films on an iPhone12 Kino-Eye in Reverse: Visualizing Cinema; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780748695096

0748695095

9780748676125

0748676120

OCLC:

932343803