Cinematicity in Media History / / Jeffrey Geiger, Karin Littau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Geiger, Jeffrey,; Littau, Karin,
• MitwirkendeR: Baumbach, Nico,; Beugnet, Martine,; Christie, Ian,; Geiger, Jeffrey,; Gunning, Tom,; Gurevitch, Leon,; Hennig, Anke,; Littau, Karin,; Manovich, Lev,; Marsh, Joss,; Moen, Kristian,; Williams, Keith B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 38 B/W illustrations

Highlights the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one otherIn a world where change has become the only constant, how does the perpetually new relate to the old? How does cinema, itself once a new medium, relate both to previous or outmoded media and to what we now refer to as New Media?This collection sets out to answer these questions by focusing on the relationships between cinema and other media, cultural productions and diverse forms of entertainment. Cinematicity in Media History highlights the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one other, demonstrating how cinematicity makes itself felt in practices of seeing, reading, writing and thinking both before and after the 'birth' of cinema. It examines the interrelations between cinema, literature, photography and other modes of representation not only to each other, but amid a host of other minor and major media - the magic lantern, the zoetrope, the flick-book, the iPhone and the computer - and provides crucial insights into the development of media and their overlapping technologies and aesthetics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Cinematicity and Comparative Media -- Part 1 Cinematicity before Cinema -- 1. Dickensian 'Dissolving Views': The Magic Lantern, Visual Storytelling and the Victorian Technological Imagination -- 2. 'Never Has One Seen Reality Enveloped in Such a Phantasmagoria': Watching Spectacular Transformations, 1860-89 -- 3. Moving-picture Media and Modernity: Taking Intermediate and Ephemeral Forms Seriously -- Part 2 Transitions: Early Cinema and Cinematicity -- 4. Reading in the Age of Edison: The Cinematicity of 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' -- 5. Time and Motion Studies: Joycean Cinematicity in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- 6. Nature Caught in the Act: On the Transformation of an Idea of Art in Early Cinema -- Part 3 Cinematicity in the 'Classic' Cinema Age -- 7. Cinematicity of Speech and Visibility of Literature: The Poetics of Soviet Film Scripts of the Early Sound Film Era -- 8. Making America Global: Cinematicity and the Aerial View -- 9. Invisible Cities, Visible Cinema: Illuminating Shadows in Late Film Noir -- Part 4 Digital Cinematicity -- 10. Cinema, Video, Game: Astonishing Aesthetics and the Cinematic 'Future' of Computer Graphics' Past -- 11. Miniature Pleasures: On Watching Films on an iPhone -- 12. Kino-Eye in Reverse: Visualizing Cinema -- Select Bibliography -- Index