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Cinema as a Worldbuilding Machine in the Digital Era

Author : Alain Boillat
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969820
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Cinema as a Worldbuilding Machine in the Digital Era written by Alain Boillat and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay examines the primacy of worldbuilding in the age of CGI, transmedia practices and "high concept" fiction by studying the principles that govern the creation of a multiverse in a wide range of film and TV productions. Emphasis is placed on Hollywood sci-fi movies and their on-screen representation of imaginary machines that mirror the film medium, following in the tradition of Philip K. Dick's writings and the cyberpunk culture. A typology of worlds is established, as well as a number of analytical tools for assessing the impact of the coexistence of two or more worlds on the narrative structure, the style (uses of color, editing practices), the generic affiliation (or hybridity), the seriality and the discourse produced by a given film (particularly in fictions linked to post-9/11 fantasies). Among the various titles examined, the reader is offered a detailed analysis of the Resident Evil film series, Total Recall and its remake, Dark City, the Matrix trilogy, Avatar, Source Code and other time-loop films, TRON and its sequel, Christopher Nolan's Tenet, and several TV shows – most notably HBO's Westworld, but also Sliders, Lost, Fringe and Counterpart.

What Film Is Good For

Author : Prof. Julian Hanich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520386825
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book What Film Is Good For written by Prof. Julian Hanich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a century, going to the movies has been a favorite pastime for billions across the globe. But is film actually good for anything? This volume brings together thirty-six scholars, critics, and filmmakers in search of an answer. Their responses range from the most personal to the most theoretical—and, together, recast current debates about film ethics. Movie watching here emerges as a wellspring of value, able to sustain countless visions of "the good life." Films, these authors affirm, make us reflect, connect, adapt; they evoke wonder and beauty; they challenge and transform. In a word, its varieties of value make film invaluable.

Synthetic Cinema

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030125718
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Synthetic Cinema written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "synthetic cinema." He details how movies over the last two decades have fundamentally abandoned traditional filmmaking values through the overwhelming use of computer generated imagery, digital touch ups for the actors, and extensive use of green screen technology that replace sets and location shooting. Combined with the shift to digital cinematography, as well as the rise of comic book and franchise cinema, the temptation to augment movies with lavish, computer generated spectacle has proven irresistible to both directors and audiences, to the point that, Dixon argues, 21st-century commercial cinema is so far removed from the real world that it has created a new era of flawless, fake movies.

A Distant Technology

Author : J. P. Telotte
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819563460
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book A Distant Technology written by J. P. Telotte and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction films celebrate and critique the impact of a burgeoning technology on the world's cultural, political, and social milieu. The Machine Age, roughly delineated by the two decades between World Wars, was a watershed period during which modern society entered into an ambiguous embrace with technology that continues today. J. P. Telotte carefully blends film, technology, cultural, and genre studies to illuminate this nearly forgotten era in our cinematic history and to show, through analysis of classics like The Invisible Ray, Metropolis, and Things to Come, how technology played a major role as motif, "actor," and producer. What he also discovers as he ranges among the American, British, Russian, French, and German science fiction cinema — as well as mainstream films, figures, and cultural products such as the New York World's Fair — is a fundamental ambivalence, embedded in the films themselves, about the very machine-age ethos they promoted. Even as advances in the technical apparatus of filmmaking elevated it from mere entertainment to a medium of general communication and genuine artistic expression, Machine Age science fiction films remained curiously distant from and often skeptical of the very machines on which their narratives focus. The resulting tensions, Telotte writes, "thus seem to intersect with those implicit in a Western world that was struggling with its own transition into the modern," rendering the films' task inevitably paradoxical and difficult

The Kinematic Turn

Author : Andre Gaudreault
Publisher : Indiana University Press (Ips)
ISBN 13 : 9781927852163
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Kinematic Turn written by Andre Gaudreault and published by Indiana University Press (Ips). This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heralding the digital era of cinema as a return to its roots as a crossroads of other media and cultural practices, André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion challenge the prognosis that cinema is dying, arguing that cinema has always been more an "evolving patchwork of federated cultural series" than a static form with a fixed identity. In a discussion ranging from early cinema, of which today's media landscape a century later is an eerie reflection, to opera films in local movie theatres to the "return of cinema's repressed" - animation, and now performance capture - The Kinematic Turn: Film in the Digital Era and its Ten Problems lays out a roadmap for negotiating the issues that will confront cinema in the years ahead as it increasingly mingles with other media. In the process the authors coin another neologism in their extensive repertoire, the "kinematic," or the shift from the medium cinema to a convergence of moving image media, one that will engender a major "turn" in study of the field. This expanded second edition includes a lengthy interview with the authors on the developments in their thinking since this volume was first published.

21st-Century Hollywood

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813551986
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book 21st-Century Hollywood written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are shot on high-definition digital cameras—with computer-generated effects added in postproduction—and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed on laptop, iPod, and cell phone screens. They are movies in the 21st century—the product of digital technologies that have revolutionized media production, content distribution, and the experience of moviegoing itself. 21st-Century Hollywood introduces readers to these global transformations and describes the decisive roles that Hollywood is playing in determining the digital future for world cinema. It offers clear, concise explanations of a major paradigm shift that continues to reshape our relationship to the moving image. Filled with numerous detailed examples, the book will both educate and entertain film students and movie fans alike.

World Building

Author : Marta Boni
Publisher : Transmedia
ISBN 13 : 9789089647566
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book World Building written by Marta Boni and published by Transmedia. This book was released on 2017 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to modern technology, we are now living in an age of multiplatform fictional worlds, as television, film, the Internet, graphic novels, toys, and more facilitate the creation of diverse yet compact imaginary universes, which are often recognizable as brands and exhibit well-defined identities. This volume, situated at the cutting edge of media theory, explores this phenomenon from both theoretical and practical perspectives, uncovering how the construction of these worlds influences our own determination of values and meaning in contemporary society.

From IBM to MGM

Author : Andrew Utterson
Publisher : British Film Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781844573240
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book From IBM to MGM written by Andrew Utterson and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Utterson's unique study charts the beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how filmmakers used new digital technologies and how attitudes and anxieties about the rise of the computer were represented in films such as Lang's Desk Set, Godard's Alphaville, Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Crichton's Westworld.

Cinema in the Digital Age

Author : Nicholas Rombes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cinema in the Digital Age written by Nicholas Rombes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the fate of cinema in the digital era, paying special attention to both the technologies and their cultural meaning.

The Cinema in Flux

Author : Lenny Lipton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1071609513
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema in Flux written by Lenny Lipton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this book traces the evolution of motion picture technology in its entirety. Beginning with Huygens' magic lantern and ending in the current electronic era, it explains cinema’s scientific foundations and the development of parallel enabling technologies alongside the lives of the innovators. Product development issues, business and marketplace factors, the interaction of aesthetic and technological demands, and the patent system all play key roles in the tale. The topics are covered sequentially, with detailed discussion of the transition from the magic lantern to Edison’s invention of the 35mm camera, the development of the celluloid cinema, and the transition from celluloid to digital. Unique and essential reading from a lifetime innovator in the field of cinema technology, this engaging and well-illustrated book will appeal to anyone interested in the history and science of cinema, from movie buffs to academics and members of the motion picture industry.

Flickers of Film

Author : Jason Sperb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813576015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Flickers of Film written by Jason Sperb and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo or celebrating arcade games in Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. Flickers of Film offers a nuanced look at the benefits and risks of this nostalgia, considering how it registers industry-wide uncertainty with the dominance of the digital, even as it ignores the people whose livelihoods have been most affected by the economic transformations of the digital era.

Cinematic Skepticism

Author : Jeroen Gerrits
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438476655
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Skepticism written by Jeroen Gerrits and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of its automatic way of recording reality, film has a privileged relation to the problem of skepticism. If early film theorists celebrate cinema for overcoming skeptical doubt about the power of human vision, recent film-philosophers argue that our postphotographic, digital cinema is heading toward a general acceptance of skepticism, as though nothing on screen has anything to do with reality any longer. Emerging from the interaction of Stanley Cavell's and Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophies, Cinematic Skepticism challenges both these views. Jeroen Gerrits takes the issue of skepticism beyond concern with knowledge, turning skepticism into an ethical problem that pervades film history and theory. At the same time, he rethinks a Cavello-Deleuzian approach across the digital and global turns in cinema. Combining clear explanations of complex philosophical arguments with in-depth analyses of the contemporary films Grizzly Man, Amélie, Three Monkeys, and The Headless Woman, Gerrits traces how cinema invents ways of dis/connecting to the world.

Stories

Author : Ian Christie
Publisher : Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies
ISBN 13 : 9789462985841
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Stories written by Ian Christie and published by Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies new phenomena in the fields of complex narration, puzzle film, and transmedia storytelling.

The Cinema Effect

Author : Sean Cubitt
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262532778
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema Effect written by Sean Cubitt and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of images in motion that explores the"special effect" of cinema.

From Light to Byte

Author : Markos Hadjioannou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816677610
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book From Light to Byte written by Markos Hadjioannou and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift - celluloid film is being replaced by digital media. The author asks what is different in the way digital movies depict the world and engage with the individual and how we might best address the technological shift within media archaeologies.

10/40/70

Author : Nicholas Rombes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782791409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book 10/40/70 written by Nicholas Rombes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold experiment in film theory for the digital era.

World Cinema

Author : Shekhar A. Deshpande
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781136473135
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book World Cinema written by Shekhar A. Deshpande and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new technologies and increased globalization have radically altered the landscape in which films are distributed and exhibited. Films range from the large scale of India, Hollywood, and Asia, to the small productions in Bhutan and Morocco. They are seen in multiplexes, palatial art cinemas in Cannes, traveling theatres in rural India, and on millions of hand-held mobile screens. Authors Deshpande and Mazaj have developed a method of charting this new world cinema that makes room for divergent perspectives, traditions, and positions, while also revealing their interconnectedness and relationships of meaning. In doing so, they bring together a broad range of issues and examples-theoretical concepts, viewing and production practices, film festivals, large industries such as Nollywood and Bollywood, and smaller and emerging film cultures-into a systemic yet flexible map of world cinema. The multi-layered approach of this book aims to do justice to the depth, dynamism, and complexity of the phenomenon of world cinema. For students looking to films outside of their immediate context, this book offers a blueprint that will enable them to transform a casual encounter with a film into a systematic inquiry into world cinema.