The virtual life of film /
As almost every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital technologies, even the notion of "watching a film" is fast becoming an anachronism. With the likely disappearance of celluloid film stock as a medium, and the emergence of new media, what will happen to cinema--and...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007
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Table of Contents:
- I. The virtual life of film. Futureworld
- The incredible shrinking medium
- Back to the future
- II. What was cinema? Film begets video
- The death of cinema and the birth of film studies
- A medium in all things
- Automatisms and art
- Automatism and photography
- Succession and the film strip
- Ways of worldmaking
- A world past
- An ethics of time
- III. A new landscape (without image). An elegy for film
- The new "media"
- Paradoxes of perceptual realism
- Real is as real does
- Lost in translation: analogy and index revisited
- Simulation, or automatism as algorithm
- An image that is not "one"
- Two futures for electronic images, or what comes after photography?
- The digital event
- Transcoded ontologies, or "a guess at the riddle"
- Old and new, or the (virtual) renascence of cinema studies.
