Language of New Media

Name: Language of New Media
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ISBN: 9780262133746

ISBN-10: 0262133741

ISBN-13: 9780262133746

Edition: 2002

Authors: Lev Manovich

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In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/15/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.046



Foreword



Prologue: Vertov's Dataset


Acknowledgments


Introduction


A Personal Chronology


Theory of the Present


Mapping New Media: Method


Mapping New Media: Organization


The Terms: Language, Object, Representation



What Is New Media?


How Media Became New


Principles of New Media


What New Media Is Not



The Interface


The Language of Cultural Interfaces


The Screen and the User



The Operations


Menus, Filters, Plug-Ins


Compositing


Teleaction



The Illusions


Synthetic Realism and Its Discontents


The Synthetic Image and Its Subject


Illusion, Narrative, and Interactivity



The Forms


The Database


Navigable Space



What Is Cinema?


Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image


The New Language of Cinema


Index