BOOKS - Cinematicity in Media History
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844397
Cinematicity in Media History
Author: Jeffrey Geiger
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 5.1 MB
Language: English
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 5.1 MB
Language: English
Highlights the complex ways in which media anticipate interfere with and draw on one otherIn a world where change has become the only constant how does the perpetually new relate to the old How does cinema itself once a new medium relate both to previous or outmoded media and to what we now refer to as New Media This collection sets out to answer these questions by focusing on the relationships between cinema and other media cultural productions and diverse forms of entertainment Cinematicity in Media History highlights the complex ways in which media anticipate interfere with and draw on one other demonstrating how cinematicity makes itself felt in practices of seeing reading writing and thinking both before and after the birth of cinema It examines the interrelations between cinema literature photography and other modes of representation not only to each other but amid a host of other minor and major media the magic lantern the zoetrope the flick book the iPhone and the computer and provides crucial insights into the development of media and their overlapping technologies and aesthetics