Examines the fate of cinema in the digital era, paying special attention to both the technologies and their cultural meaning.
With its timely analysis of new modes of production emerging from the struggles of Japanese filmmakers and animators to finance and market their work in a post-studio era, this book holds critical implications for the future of other ...
Brokering a peace among all sides, Gaudreault and Marion emphasize the cultural practice of cinema over rigid claims on its identity, moving toward a common conception of cinema to better understand where it is headed next.
The second is, that though the 'tactile' direction of the first three films has been extended in films like Green Cut Gate, and Maja Replicate by Fred Drummond, and Slides by Annabel Nicolson, other areas have emerged exploring ...
This volume brings together a range of renowned academics and artists to examine contemporary artisanal films, DIY labs, and filmmakers typically left out of the avant-garde canon, addressing the convergence between the analog and the ...
For, when supercinema is considered as a process rather than as a thing, it suggests the moving 'beyond' that which cinema ... low- to zero-budget filmmakers, such as the so-called 'mumblecore' directors Joe Swanberg and Aaron Katz, ...
This is the first in-depth, book-length study on fashion and Italian cinema from the silent film to the present. Italian cinema launched Italian fashion to the world. The book is the story of this launch.
It is not difficult to see how latter-day cult fans would invest grindhouse nostalgia with related fantasies about rebellion and subcultural distinction. In contrast, however, Bette Gordon's film Variety (1983) depicts grind houses as ...
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Beyond Dolby (Stereo) includes detailed analyses of Fight Club, The Matrix, Hairspray, Disturbia, The Rock, Saving Private Ryan, and Joy Ride, among other films, to illustrate the value of a truly audiovisual approach to cinema studies.
In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form.