Cinema in the digital age / Nicholas Rombes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rombes, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital cinematography.

Digital media--Influence.

Digital media.

Motion pictures--Technological innovations.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Does the digital era spell the death of cinema as we know it? Or is it merely heralding its rebirth? Are we witnessing the emergence of something entirely new? Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in this new era, paying special attention to the technologies that are reshaping film and their cultural impact. Examining Festen (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Timecode (2000), Russian Ark (2002), The Ring (2002), among others, this volume explores how these films are haunted by their analogue past and suggests that their signature element are their deliberate imperfec

Contents:

[ Contents ]; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Adorno Paradox; Against Method; Analogue/Digital Splice; Boredom and Analogue Nostalgia; The Digital Spectacular; Disposable Aesthetics; DV Humanism; Filmless Films; Frame Dragging; The Ideology of the Long Take; Image/Text; Incompleteness; Interfaces; iPod Experiment; Ironic Mode; Looking at Yourself Looking: Avatar As Spectator; Media As Its Own Theory; Mobile Viewing; Moving Space In The Frame, And A Note On Film Theory; Natural Time; Nonlinear; Pausing; Punk; Realism; Real Time; The Real You; Remainders; Sampling; Secondary Becomes Primary

Self-deconstructing NarrativesShaky Camera; Shoot! [Si Gira]; Simultaneous Cinema; Small Screens; Target Video; Time, Memory; Time-Shifting; Tmesis: Skimming and Skipping; Undirected Films; Viewer Participation; Virtual Humanism: Part 1; Virtual Humanism: Part 2; Visible Language, Spring 1977; Filmography; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

ISBN:

9781905674862

1905674864

9780231501484

023150148X

OCLC:

818857193