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Cinematicity in media history /

Highlights the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one other. In 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 r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Geiger, Jeffrey (Editor ), Littau, Karin, 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : cinematicity and comparative media / Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau
  • Part 1. Cinematicity before cinema
  • 1. Dickensian 'dissolving views' : the magic lantern, visual storytelling and the Victorian technological imagination / Joss Marsh
  • 2. 'Never has one seen reality enveloped in such a phantasmagoria' : watching spectacular transformations, 1860-89 / Kristian Moen
  • 3. Moving-picture media and modernity : taking intermediate and ephemeral forms seriously / Ian Christie
  • Part 2. Transitions : early cinema and cinematicity
  • 4. Reading in the age of Edison : the cinematicity of 'The yellow wall-paper' / Karin Littau
  • 5. Time and motion studies : Joycean cinematicity in A portrait of the artist as a young man / Keith B. Williams
  • 6. Nature caught in the act : on the transformation of an idea of art in early cinema / Nico Baumbach
  • Part 3. Cinematicity in the 'classic' cinema age
  • 7. Cinematicity of speech and visibility of literature : the poetics of Soviet film scripts of the early sound film era / Anke Hennig
  • 8. Making America global : cinematicity and the aerial view / Jeffrey Geiger
  • 9. Invisible cities, visible cinema : illuminating shadows in late film noir / Tom Gunning
  • Part 4. Digital cinematicity
  • 10. Cinema, video, game : astonishing aesthetics and the cinematic 'future' of computer graphics' past / Leon Gurevitch
  • 11. Miniature pleasures : on watching films on an iPhone / Martine Beugnet
  • 12. Kino-eye in reverse : visualizing cinema / Lev Manovich.