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Shard Cinema

Shard Cinema
Author: Evan Calder Williams
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2017-06-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1910924822

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Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world. With a range that spans film, games, software, architecture, and military technologies, the book crosses the twentieth century into our present to confront a new order of seeing and making that took slow shape: the composite image, where no clean distinction can be made between production and post-production, filmed and animated, material and digital. Giving equal ground to costly blockbusters and shaky riot footage, Williams leads us from computer-generated “shards” of particles and debris to the broken phone screen on which we watch those digital storms, looking for the unexpected histories lived in the interval between.


Squid Cinema From Hell

Squid Cinema From Hell
Author: Brown William Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474463754

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Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other tentacular creatures in contemporary media, while also speculating that digital media might themselves constitute a weird, intelligent alien. If this were not enough to shiver ye timbers, the book engages with contemporary discourses of posthumanism, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology and animal studies to suggest that humans are the products of media rather than media being the products of humans. Including case studies of films by Denis Villeneuve, Park Chan-wook and Celine Sciamma, The Squid Cinema From Hell also provides a daring engagement with various media beyond cinema, including literature, music videos, 4DX, advertising, websites, YouTube, Artificial Intelligence and more. Zounds! This unique and Lovecraftian book will change the way you think about, and with, our contemporary, media-saturated world. For as we contemplate the abyss, the abyss looks back at us - and chthulumedia, or media at the end of human times, begin to emerge.


Cinemachines

Cinemachines
Author: Garrett Stewart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 022665673X

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The hero stands on stage in high-definition 3-D while doubled on a crude pixel screen in Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Alien ships leave Earth by dissolving at the conclusion of Arrival. An illusory death spiral in Vertigo transitions abruptly to a studio set, jolting the spectator. These are a few of the startling visual moments that Garrett Stewart examines in Cinemachines, a compelling, powerful, and witty book about the cultural and mechanical apparatuses that underlie modern cinema. Engaging in fresh ways with revelatory special effects in the history of cinematic storytelling—from Buster Keaton’s breaching of the film screen in Sherlock Jr. to the pixel disintegration of a remotely projected hologram in Blade Runner 2049—Stewart’s book puts unprecedented emphasis on technique in moving image narrative. Complicating and revising the discourse on historical screen processes, Cinemachines will be crucial reading for anyone interested in the evolution of the movies from a celluloid to a digital medium.


The Mad Max Effect

The Mad Max Effect
Author: James Newton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-06-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501342312

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The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s. The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape.


Shadows, Specters, Shards

Shadows, Specters, Shards
Author: Jeffrey Skoller
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0816642311

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Demonstrates how avant-garde films better reflect the complexity of history than conventional film.


Chinese Urban Shi-nema

Chinese Urban Shi-nema
Author: David H. Fleming
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3030496759

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This book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the “becoming cinema” of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China’s radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented history museum; China’s “first and best” Sino-foreign university; a new “Old town”; and weird gamified “any-now(here)-spaces.” Together these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon the broader picture sweeping up greater China.


Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed
Author: Luca Peretti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501328867

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This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and his legacy. Over 40 years after his death Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to challenge and interest us, both in academic circles and in popular discourses. Today his films stand as lampposts of Italian cinematic production, his cinematic theories resonate broadly through academic circles, and his philosophical, essayistic, and journalistic writings-albeit relatively sparsely translated into other languages-are still widely influential. Pasolini has also become an image, a mascot, a face on tote bags, a graffiti image on walls, an adjective (pasolinian). The collected essays push us to consider and reconsider Pasolini, a thinker for the twenty-first century.


The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors

The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors
Author: Garrett Stewart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501388819

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With its laser-focus on the verbal and visual infrastructure of narrative, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how image patterns are tracked in prose and cinema. In film examples ranging from Citizen Kane through Apocalypse Now to Blade Runner 2049, then on to Christopher Nolan's 2020 Tenet, Garrett Stewart follows the shift from celluloid to digital cinema through various narrative manifestations of the image, from freeze-frames to computer-generated special effects. By bringing cinema alongside literature, Stewart discovers a common tendency in contemporary storytelling, in both prose and visual narrative, from the ongoing trend of “mind-game” films to the often puzzling narrative eccentricities of such different writers as Nicholson Baker and Richard Powers-including the latter's eerie mirroring of reader empathy in his 2021 Bewilderment.


Reuse, Misuse, Abuse

Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
Author: Jaimie Baron
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0813599261

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(Re)exposing Intimate Traces -- Speaking through Others -- Dislocating the Hegemonic Gaze -- Reframing the Perpetrator's Gaze -- Abusing Images.


Discorrelated Images

Discorrelated Images
Author: Shane Denson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2020-09-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1478012412

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In Discorrelated Images Shane Denson examines how computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema. Denson analyzes works ranging from the Transformers series and Blade Runner 2049 to videogames and multimedia installations to show how what he calls discorrelated images—images that do not correlate with the abilities and limits of human perception—produce new subjectivities, affects, and potentials for perception and action. Denson's theorization suggests that new media theory and its focus on technological development must now be inseparable from film and cinema theory. There's more at stake in understanding discorrelated images, Denson contends, than just a reshaping of cinema, the development of new technical imaging processes, and the evolution of film and media studies: discorrelated images herald a transformation of subjectivity itself and are essential to our ability to comprehend nonhuman agency.