Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence

ISBN-13: 9780813545479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 228 str.

Chuck Tryon

Opis

For over a century, movies have played an important role in our lives, entertaining us, often provoking conversation and debate. Now, with the rise of digital cinema, audiences often encounter movies outside the theater and even outside the home. Traditional distribution models are challenged by new media entrepreneurs and independent filmmakers, user-generated video, film blogs, mashups, downloads, and other expanding networks. Reinventing Cinema examines film culture at the turn of this century, at the precise moment when digital media are altering our historical relationship with the movies. In an eye-opening analysis that spans multiple disciplines, Chuck Tryon addresses the interaction between production, distribution, and reception of films, television, and other new and emerging media. Through close readings of trade publications, DVD extras, public lectures by new media leaders, movie blogs, and YouTube videos, he navigates the shift to digital cinema and examines how it is altering film and popular culture. "A superb book that helps us think beyond the grand but sometimes ungrounded digital convergence and user revolution rhetoric. Particularly impressive are the ways that the book marshals historical evidence to fill important gaps in new media 'theory, ' connects domestic activities with industrial practice, and shows how 'DIY' (do-it-yourself) vernacular film criticism and analysis (film blogging) is as important as DIY production activities (uploaded videos and 'mash-ups') in spurring participation in contemporary film culture."-John T. Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television "Reinventing Cinema represents a significant accomplishment for the way it re-visions recent film history, drawing into its account such key questions for the digital age as who actually controls the dissemination of images and who determines their meaning." -J. P. Telotte, author of The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology Chuck Tryon is an assistant professor in the department of English and foreign languages at Fayetteville State University.