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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462901303321

Autore

Hadjioannou Markos

Titolo

From light to byte [[electronic resource] ] : toward an ethics of digital cinema / / Markos Hadjioannou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4799-6

0-8166-8207-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/656

Soggetti

Cinematography - Technological innovations

Digital cinematography

Motion pictures - Aesthetics

Technology in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes filmography.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Going Digital: Cinema's New Age; Chapter 1:  The Reality of the Index,  or Where Does The Truth Lie?; Chapter 2:  Physical Presences: Reality, Materiality, Corporeality; Chapter 3:  Spatial Coordinates: In between Celluloid Strips and Codified Pixels; Chapter 4:  Rediscovering Cinematic Time; Chapter 5: Tracing an Ethics of the Movie Image; Conclusion: Change: A Point of Constant Departure; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media in the production, distribution, and reception of moving images. Concerned with the debate surrounding digital cinema's ontology and the interrelationship between cinema cultures, From Light to Byte investigates the very idea of change as it is expressed in the current technological transition. Markos Hadjioannou asks what is different in the way digital movies depict the world and engage with the individual and how we might best address the issue of technological shift w