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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779841703321

Autore

Brown William <1977->

Titolo

Supercinema [[electronic resource] ] : film-philosophy for the digital age / / William Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

1-78238-901-6

0-85745-950-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Classificazione

AP 46500

Disciplina

777

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Digital cinematography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Digital cinema's conquest of space -- The deanthropocentric character of digital cinema -- From temporalities to time in digital cinema -- The film-spectator-world assemblage -- Concluding with love.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides its technological omnipotence through the use of continued conventions more suited to analogue cinema, in a way that is analogous to t