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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821165603321

Autore

Willis Holly

Titolo

Fast forward : the future(s) of the cinematic arts / / Holly Willis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Wallflower Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-231-85097-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Disciplina

791.4509

Soggetti

Motion pictures and television

Mass media and language

Motion picture industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The State of Things -- Chapter 1. Past, Present, Future: Situating Post-Cinema -- Chapter 2. New Practices / New Paradigms -- Chapter 3. Live Cinema -- Chapter 4. Urban Screens / Screened Urbanism -- Chapter 5. Books to Watch, Films to Read, Stories to Touch: New Interfaces for Storytelling -- Chapter 6. Virtual Reality and the Networked Self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the twentieth century, is being reconfigured by new media in the twenty-first. Terms such as "worldbuilding," "virtual reality," and "transmedia" introduce new methods for constructing a screenplay and experiencing and sharing a story. Similarly, 3D cinematography, hypercinema, and visual effects require different modes for composing an image, and virtual technology, motion capture, and previsualization completely rearrange the traditional flow of cinematic production. What does this mean for telling stories? Fast Forward answers this question by investigating a full range of contemporary creative practices dedicated to the future of mediated storytelling and by connecting with a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, technologists, media artists, and designers to discover how they work now, and toward what end. From Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin's exploration of VR spherical filmmaking to Rebeca



Méndez's projection and installation work exploring climate change to the richly mediated interactive live performances of the collective Cloud Eye Control, this volume captures a moment of creative evolution and sets the stage for imagining the future of the cinematic arts.