The Virtual Life of Film
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674026985 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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N. Rodowick is Glen A. D. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
"An exemplary contribution to modern film theory" according to Aleksander Hauge. One of the most influential books I have ever read about contemporary film philosophy. A must have for all film scholars out there that have an idea about the ongoing and very interesting discussion that involves the "death of film".. MateoDLR said Five Stars. Pristine condition. Just as described.. Penny said Good textbook for film students. Good, sound information for the casual film-lover or the film student wanting to increase their level of knowledge of film.
His book helps us see how digital technologies are serving, like television and video before them, to perpetuate the cinematic as the mature audiovisual culture of the twentieth century--and, at the same time, how they are preparing the emergence of a new audiovisual culture whose broad outlines we are only just beginning to distinguish.. Rodowick considers the fate of film and its role in the aesthetics and culture of moviemaking and viewing in the twenty-first century.Here Rodowick proposes and examines three different critical responses to the disappearance of film in relation to other time-based media, and to the study of contemporary visual cultu
Skeptical and dialectical, this profound and graceful meditation reconsiders the photographic ontology of cinema and concepts such as "medium," "virtuality," and "automatism"its aim not only the preservation and expansion of film studies as a humanities discipline but also a recuperation of the important philosophical questions that have been foundational for film theory. An important work, it raises vital issuesIn the opening chapters Rodowick offers one of the most nuanced and complex descriptions of the photographic in cinema ever presented. Lucid and forceful, D.N. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, Yale University)Over the years Rodowick has provided perhaps the most thorough readings and evaluations of contemporary, post-classical film theory any scholar has offered. (Dudley Andrew, R. The Virtual Life of Film offers his specul