The Virtual Life of Film
Published on 1. July 2009
216 pages
978-0-674-04283-4 (ISBN)
Description
With the likely disappearance of celluloid film stock as a medium, and the emergence of new media, what will happen to cinema-and to cinema studies? Rodowick considers the fate of film and its role in the aesthetics and culture of the twenty-first century.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04283-4 (9780674042834)
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D. N. Rodowick
The Virtual Life of Film
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10/2007
Harvard University Press
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D. N. Rodowick is Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University. His many books include The Afterimage of Gilles Deleuze's Film Philosophy (as editor) and Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media.
Content
Contents I. The Virtual Life of Film 1. Futureworld 2. The Incredible Shrinking Medium 3. Back to the Future II. What Was Cinema? 4. Film Begets Video 5. The Death of Cinema and the Birth of Film Studies 6. A Medium in All Things 7. Automatisms and Art 8. Automatism and Photography 9. Succession and the Film Strip 10. Ways of Worldmaking 11. A World Past 12. An Ethics of Time III. A New Landscape (without Image) 13. An Elegy for Film 14. The New ?Media? 15. Paradoxes of Perceptual Realism 16. Real Is as Real Does 17. Lost in Translation: Analogy and Index Revisited 18. Simulation, or Automatism as Algorithm 19. An Image That Is Not ?One? 20. Two Futures for Electronic Images, or What Comes after Photography? 21. The Digital Event 22. Transcoded Ontologies, or ?A Guess at the Riddle? 23. Old and New, or the (Virtual) Renascence of Cinema Studies Acknowledgments Illustrations Frame enlargement from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Frame enlargement from Jurassic Park (1993) Man Ray, Self-portrait with camera (1931) Rayography: Film strip and sphere (1922) The Battle of Waterloo (ca. 1820) Mathew Brady, Antietam Dead (1862) The two camera set-ups of Num?ro z?ro (1971) Two frame enlargements from Eloge de l?amour (2003) Frame enlargement from Forrest Gump (1994) The two ?worlds? of The Matrix (1999) Frame enlargement from Arabesque (John Whitney, 1975) Abu Ghraib documentation (2003) Sam Taylor-Wood, Piet? (2001) Raw data from Russian Ark (2002) Frame enlargement from Russian Ark (2002)
