Cinematicity in Media History /

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

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 ref...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 38 B/W illustrations
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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

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