As almost (or, truly, virtually) 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 competing for an audience, what will happen
to cinema--and to cinema studies? In the first of two books
exploring this question, D. N. Rodowick considers the fate of film
and its role in the aesthetics and culture of moviemaking and
viewing in the twenty-first century.
Here Rodowick proposes and examines three different critical
responses to the disappearance of film in relation to other
time-based media, and to the study of contemporary visual culture.
Film, he suggests, occupies a special place in the genealogy of the
arts of the virtual: while film disappears, cinema persists--at
least in the narrative forms imagined by Hollywood since 1915.
Rodowick also observes that most so-called "new media" are
fashioned upon a cinematic metaphor. His book helps us see how
digital technologies are serving, like television and video before
them, to perpetuate the cinematic as the mature audiovisual culture
of the twentieth century--and, at the same time, how they are
preparing the emergence of a new audiovisual culture whose broad
outlines we are only just beginning to distinguish.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2007 |
| First published: |
2007 |
| Authors: |
D.N. Rodowick
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
193 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-02698-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-674-02698-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780674026988 |
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