Cinematicity in media history
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Cinematicity in media history
Edinburgh University Press, c2013
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [235]-239
Includes index
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: hardback ISBN 9780748676118
Description
This book highlights the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one other. What is 'cinematicity'? What does it mean to perceive the world cinematically? How have cinematic ways of seeing the world existed across different eras, textual modes, and media? Film Studies is an expanding field, and no longer limited to the study of film (that is, projected celluloid image and sound) in any traditional sense. The study of film and filmic modes of experience continue to expand within and through other fields such as Literature, Art, History, Sociology, Media Studies, and Philosophy - yet few collections have addressed the broader histories and implications of 'filmic' ways of representing and experiencing the world. Cinematicity, then, describes the ways that different media, art forms, and fields of enquiry both anticipated and were marked by the cinematic apparatus. It also encompasses the far-reaching contours and cultural currencies of cinematic perception.
Covering a range of cinematic texts and genres in comparative contexts this collection examines key developments in pre-cinema and cinema history and provides new scholarship on cinematic perception across different media. It demonstrates the breadth and influences of cinematic ways of perceiving the world. It covers a range of cinematic texts and genres in comparative contexts. It examines key developments in pre-cinema and cinema history. It provides new scholarship on cinematic perception across different media.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Cinematicity and Comparative Media, Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau, both at the University of Essex
- Part 1 - Cinematicity Before Cinema
- 1. Dickensian 'Dissolving Views': The Magic Lantern, Visual Story-Telling, and the Victorian Technological Imagination, Joss Marsh, Indiana University, Bloomington
- 2. 'Never Has One Seen Reality Enveloped in Such a Phantasmagoria': Watching Spectacular Transformations, 1860-1889, Kristian Moen, University of Bristol
- 3. Moving-Picture Media and Modernity: Taking Intermediate and Ephemeral Forms Seriously, Ian Christie, Birkbeck College
- Part 2 - Transitions: Early Cinema and Cinematicity
- 4. Reading in the Age of Edison: The Cinematicity of 'The Yellow Wall-paper', Karin Littau, University of Essex
- 5. Time and Motion Studies: Joycean Cinematicity in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Keith B. Williams, University of Dundee
- 6. Nature Caught in the Act: On the Transformation of an Idea of Art in Early Cinema, Nico Baumbach, Columbia University School of the Arts
- 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, Freie Universitat Berlin
- 8. Making America Global: Cinematicity and the Aerial View, Jeffrey Geiger, University of Essex
- 9. Invisible Cities, Visible Cinema: Illuminating Shadows in Late Film Noir, Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
- Part 4 - Digital Cinematicity
- 10. Cinema, Video, Game: Astonishing Aesthetics and the Cinematic 'Future' of Computer Graphics' Past, Leon Gurevitch, Victoria University of Wellington
- 11. Miniature Pleasures: On Watching Films on an iPhone, Martine Beugnet, University of Paris 7 Diderot
- 12. Kino-Eye in Reverse: Visualizing Cinema, Lev Manovich, The City University of New York.
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: pbk ISBN 9781474402774
Description
This book examines how 'filmic' ways of experiencing and representing the world affected different eras, art forms, and media. 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 refer to as New Media? This collection sets out to examine these questions by focusing on the relations of cinema to other media, cultural productions and diverse forms of entertainment, demarcating their sometimes parallel and sometimes more closely conjoined histories. Cinematicity in Media History makes visible 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.
The examination of 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 - provides crucial insights into the development of media and their overlapping technologies and aesthetics. Cinematicity in Media History is therefore an essential resource for students and scholars in Film and Media Studies. Demonstrates the breadth and influences of cinematic ways of perceiving the world; covers a range of cinematic texts and genres in comparative contexts; examines key developments in pre cinema and cinema history and provides new scholarship on cinematic perception across different media.
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