Technology and Culture, the Film Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415319850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 168 str.

A. Utterson; Andrew Utterson

Opis

The relationship between cinema and technology is a complex and fascinating one. Andrew Utterson brings together key theoretical texts spanning more than a century of writing. He begins by investigating cinema as technology or as an interconnected series of technologies, then goes on to examine the technological history of cinema within a much broader context: as one element in a sustained period of technological expansion, cinematic or otherwise, and its impact on the wider world. Rather than seeing technologies in traditional mechanical terms, this reader explores by way of the moving image the various cultural, social, political, economic and ideological dimensions that are essential to an understanding of technology. Students taking courses on cinema and media technologies will find this an ideal introduction to the wealth of writing and research in the field.

Spis treści

Part 1: Origins and Evolution 1 Past, Present, and Future 2 The Myth of Total Cinema 3 Cinema and Digital Media Part 2: Visions and Manifestos 4 The Futurist Cinema 5 Kinoks: A Revolution 6 The Cinema of the Future 7 Dogme 95: The Vow of Chastity Part 3: Politics and Ideologies 8 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 9 Machines of the Visible 10 Pirates of the New World Image Orders Part 4: Identities and Interfaces 11 The Pleasure of the Interface 12 The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Cinematic and Electronic 'Presence' 13 The Cyberstar: Digital Pleasures and the End of the Unconscious

O autorze

Andrew Utterson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK, where he is director of the degree in Digital Culture, Arts and Media. He has published on film theory, digital theory, and on the intersection of these fields.