The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image (SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture) - Softcover

Dixon, Wheeler Winston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791437825 ISBN 13: 9780791437827

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.

While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed.

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Wheeler Winston Dixon is Chair of the Film Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; It Looks at You: The Returned Gaze in Cinema; The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema; and Re-Viewing British Cinema 1900-1992: Essays and Interviews, all published by SUNY Press, as well as The Early Film Criticism of François Truffaut.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791437825
• ISBN 13: 9780791437827
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
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