Postcinematic vision : the coevolution of moving-image media and the spectator / Roger F. Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Roger F., 1948- author.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 54.

Posthumanities ; 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Philosophy.

Mass media.

Mass media--Audiences.

Visual perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

Summary:

A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experienceHow has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? In Postcinematic Vision, Roger F. Cook posits film as a stage in the long coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology, offering a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing startling new insights into the so-called divide between cinematic and digital media.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Moving-Image Media and Embodied Spectatorship; Media Convergence and Remediation; 1 Film and the Embodied Mind; Technogenesis: The Coevolution of the Biological and Technological; The Phatic Image of Cinema-Reassessed; "Consciousness Is an Epiphenomenon"; Dual Temporalities of Media and the Mind; Postcinematic Reflections on Spectatorship; 2 1900: Film Transforms the Media Landscape; Film as Prosthetic Visual Consciousness; Mechanized Culture and the Moving Image.; Remediation: The Convergence of Film and Writing; Film and the Tyranny of Writing: Franz Kafka; 3 2000: Cinema and the Digital Image; Intermedial Constructions of Cinema's Virtual Reality; Digital Mediations of Movement, Space, and Time; Cinema and Singular Consciousness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-6122-0

9781452961231

9781452961224