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Film after Film (or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)

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ISBN-10: 1844677516

ISBN-13: 9781844677511

Edition: 2012

Authors: J. Hoberman

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In this sly and thought-provoking essay, Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman suggests that it’s possible to speak of a distinctive twenty-first century cinema, only a decade into the new millennium. The advent of a new digital technology has led to the displacement of the medium of film—and of the real, as digital image-making ends the necessity of having an actual world, let alone the need for a camera. The future history of motion pictures, Hoberman asserts, will be the history of animation. Meanwhile, the 2000 American presidential election and the trauma of 9/11 have reshaped the movies politically. The two events have combined to create a rupture in film history, perhaps…    
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Book details

List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/21/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.85" wide x 8.59" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Preface
A Post-Photographic Cinema
The Myth of "The Myth of Total Cinema"
The Matrix: "A Prison for Your Mind"
The New Realness
Quid Est Veritas: The Reality of Unspeakable Suffering
Social Network
Postscript: Total Cinema Redux
A Chronicle of the Bush Years
2001: After September 11
2002: The War on Terror Begins
2003: Invading Iraq
2004: Bush's Victory
2005: Looking for the Muslim World
2006: September 11, the Anniversary
2007: What Was Iraq and Where?
2008: The Election
Notes Toward a Syllabus
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
Avalon (Mamoru Oshii, 2001)
Avant-Garde Goes Digital: *Corpus Callosum, Cotton Candy, and Razzle Dazzle
Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2002)
Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004)
Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 2006)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (Douglas Gordon, 1997/2006)
LOL (Joe Swanberg, 2006)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)
Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
Opening ceremonies, Beijing Olympics (August 8, 2008)
Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
Index