Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438401272
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis The Transparency of Spectacle by : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Download or read book The Transparency of Spectacle written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed.