Rudolf Arnheim: Film as Art (1932/1957)
Filed under book | Tags: · chronophotography, cinema, film, film sound, film theory, montage, photography, silent cinema
“This is a book of standards, a theory of film. The greater part of it is an adaptation of “Film als Kunst,” first published in 1932 in the original German and in English by Faber and Faber in 1933 – an edition long out of print but still in demand because it raises fundamental questions that the intervening years have by no means answered. This edition expands the original translation by four essays.”
Originally published as Film als Kunst by Ernst Rowohlt, Berlin, 1932.
Publisher University of California Press, 1957
ISBN 0520000358, 9780520000353
230 pages
Miklós Peternák, Éva Kozma (eds.): Bauhaus Lab, Film Workshop, Budapest (2010) [English/Hungarian]
Filed under book | Tags: · experimental film, film, light, photography, sound recording
Publication from the workshops and presentations dedicated to László Moholy-Nagy, held in 2009 in Budapest.
Publisher C3 Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest, 2010
ISBN 9789638879202
85 pages
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Comment (0)Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin: Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · computer games, digital art, film, media, new media, painting, photography, radio, remediation, self, technology, television, ubiquitous computing, virtual reality, web
Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning “remediation,” and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
Publisher: MIT Press, 1999
ISBN: 0262024527, 9780262024525
295 pages
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