Digital Cinema / / Stephen Prince.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2019
• VerfasserIn: Prince, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 0 images

Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking’s analog era. In the process, it raises provocative questions about the status of realism in a pixel-generated digital medium whose scenes often defy the laws of physics. It also considers what these changes might bode for the future of cinema. How will digital works be preserved and shared? And will the emergence of virtual reality finally consign cinema to obsolescence? Stephen Prince offers a clear, concise account of how digital cinema both extends longstanding traditions of filmmaking and challenges some fundamental assumptions about film. It is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how movies are shot, produced, distributed, and consumed in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CINEMA AS CONSTRUCTION Then and Now -- 2 REASONS FOR REALISM -- 3 CHEATING PHYSICS -- 4 BEYOND CINEMA -- 5 EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FURTHER READING -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX