The transparency of spectacle : meditations on the moving image
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The transparency of spectacle : meditations on the moving image
(SUNY series in postmodern culture / Joseph Natoli, editor)
State University of New York Press, c1998
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Moving the Center: The Reconfiguration of the Moving Image
Chapter Two
Images of Empire Lost (Losey, Wallace, and the Danzigers) and Empire Regained (the Sankofa Collective)
Chapter Three
The Limits of Cinematic Spectacle: Considerations on the Horror Film
Chapter Four
Spectacles of Impoverishment: Recycling the Image Bank
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