Virtual Life of Film

Name: Virtual Life of Film
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ISBN: 9780674026988

ISBN-10: 0674026985

ISBN-13: 9780674026988

Edition: 2007

Authors: D. N. Rodowick

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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…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

D. N. Rodowick is Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.




The Virtual Life of Film



Futureworld



The Incredible Shrinking Medium



Back to the Future



What was Cinema?



Film Begets Video



The Death of Cinema and the Birth of Film Studies



A Medium in All Things



Automatisms and Art



Automatism and Photography



Succession and the Film Strip



Ways of Worldmaking



A World Past



An Ethics of Time



A New Landscape (Without Image)



An Elegy for Film



The New "Media"



Paradoxes of Perceptual Realism



Real Is as Real Does



Lost in Translation: Analogy and Index Revisited



Simulation, or Automatism as Algorithm



An Image That Is Not "One"



Two Futures for Electronic Images, or What Comes after Photography?



The Digital Event



Transcoded Ontologies, or "A Guess at the Riddle"



Old and New, or the (Virtual) Renascence of Cinema Studies


Acknowledgments