Cinema and technology: cultures, theories, practices

Cinema and technology: cultures, theories, practices

Bennett, Bruce

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Through the analysis of examples that range from cutting-edge Hollywood blockbusters to viral films on the internet, and from Victorian cinema to the present, the contributors to this volume discuss the ways in which thinking about technology is crucial to understanding cinemab s forms, significance and impactupon audiences. ÍNDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -Introduction: B.Bennett, M.Furstenau & A.Mackenzie - PART 1: FORMATS - The Perilous Gauge: Canadian Independent Film Exhibition and the 16mm Mobile Menace;P.Lester - BMW Films and the Star Wars Kid: 'Early Web Cinema' and Technology; A.Clay - On Some Limits to Film Theory (Mainly From Science); J.Elkins - PART 2: NORMS: INSTITUTIONS, REGULATIONS AND PRACTICE - Socially Combustible: Panicky People, Flammable Films, and the Dangerous New Technology of the Nickelodeon; P.Moore - Cinema and its Doubles: Kittler vs. Deleuze; J.Harris - GenomicScience in Contemporary Film: Institutions, Individuals and Genre; K.O'Riordan - PART 3: SCANNING - Cinema as Technology: Encounters with an Interface; A.Wood - Demonlover: Interval: Affect and the Aesthetics of Digital Dislocation; M.Manojlovic - 'Into the dC)cor': Attention and Distraction, Foreground and Background; C.Rodrigues - Children, Robots, Cinephilia and Technophobia; B.Bennett - PART 4: MOVEMENT - Lola and the Vampire: Technologies of Time and Movement in German Cinema; M.Langford - Inbetweening: Animation, Deleuze, Film Theory; B.Schaffer - Affective Troubles and Cinema; M-L.Angerer - Afterword: DigitalCinema and the Apparatus: Archaeologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies; T.Elsaesser - Notes - Bibliography - Index

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-52477-4
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 280
  • Fecha Publicación: 14/11/2008
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés