Anna Everett, John Thornton Caldwell (eds.): New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, cinema, computer animation, cyberpunk, cyborg, digital culture, digital media, interface, internet, media theory, new media, posthuman, programming, television, virtual reality
The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed the public from what we used to understand as “mass media.” In the face of such seismic shifts and ruptures, the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of film and TV studies are being shaken to their core. New Media demands a necessary rethinking of the field. Writing from a range of disciplines and perspectives, the scholars here outline new theses and conceptual frameworks capable of engaging the numerous facets of emergent digital technology.
Publisher Routledge, 2003
AFI Film Readers series
ISBN 041593995X, 9780415939959
274 pages
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Comment (0)Sergei Eisenstein: Selected Works, 1: Writings, 1922-34 (1988)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1920s, 1930s, aesthetics, cinema, film, film theory, ideology, soviet union
This volume is a collection of writings by Sergei Eisenstein, considered by some to be cinema’s most important theorist and author of aesthetic writings in the 20th century. Some of the writings are of his early silent masterpieces, The Strike and The Battleship Potemkin.
Edited and translated by Richard Taylor
Publisher British Film Institute, London, 1988
ISBN 0851702066, 9780851702063
343 pages
PDF (no OCR; updated on 2012-7-14)
Comment (0)Patricia Pisters: The Matrix of Visual Culture. Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, cinema, cyborg, deterritorialization, film, film theory, immanence, rhizome, time-image, visual culture
This book explores Gilles Deleuze’s contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.
Publisher Stanford University Press, 2003
Cultural Memory in the Present series
ISBN 0804740283, 9780804740289
303 pages
review (Patricia MacCormack, Senses of Cinema)
PDF (updated on 2012-7-14)
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